Inertial manifolds and foliations for asymptotically compact cocycles in Banach spaces

Abstract: We study asymptotically compact nonautonomous dynamical systems given by abstract cocycles in Banach spaces. Our main assumptions are given by a squeezing property in a quadratic cone field (given by a family of indefinite quadratic Lyapunov-like functionals) and asymptotic compactness. Under such conditions it is possible to reconstruct foliations as in the theory of normally hyperbolic manifolds. Our approach allows to unify many "practical" theories of local and nonlocal invariant manifolds, such as stable/unstable/center manifolds and inertial manifolds, and, moreover, it often leads to optimal conditions for their existence. We give applications for semilinear parabolic equations and neutral delay equations, where the Frequency Theorem is used to construct constant cone fields.