Non-Autonomous Attractor for Integro-Differential Evolution Equations

Abstract

We show that infinite-dimensional integro-differential equations which involve an integral of the solution over the time interval since starting can be formulated as non-autonomous delay differential equations with an infinite delay. Moreover, when conditions guaranteeing uniqueness of solutions do not hold, they generate a non-autonomous (possibly) multi-valued dynamical system (MNDS). The pullback attractors here are defined with respect to a universe of subsets of the state space with sub-exponetial growth, rather than restricted to bounded sets. The theory of non-autonomous pullback attractors is extended to such MNDS in a general setting and then applied to the original integro-differential equations. Examples based on the logistic equations with and without a diffusion term are considered.