Floquet Problem and Center Manifold Reduction for Ordinary Differential Operators with Periodic Coefficients in Hilbert Spaces

Abstract: A first order differential equation with a periodic operator coefficient acting in a pair of Hilbert spaces is considered. This setting models both elliptic equations with periodic coefficients in a cylinder and parabolic equations with time periodic coefficients. Our main results are a construction of a pointwise projector and a spectral splitting of the system into a finite dimensional system of ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients and an infinite dimensional part whose solutions have better properties in a certain sense. This complements the well-known asymptotic results for periodic hypoelliptic problems in cylinders (Kuchment) and for elliptic problems in quasicylinders (Nazarov). As an application we give a center manifold reduction for a class of non-linear ordinary differential equations in Hilbert spaces with periodic coefficients. This result generalizes the known case with constant coefficients (Mielke).