Dimensions, Embeddings, and Attractors

ISBN-13: 9780521898058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 205 str.

James C. Robinson

Opis

This accessible research monograph investigates how 'finite-dimensional' sets can be embedded into finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. The first part brings together a number of abstract embedding results, and provides a unified treatment of four definitions of dimension that arise in disparate fields: Lebesgue covering dimension (from classical 'dimension theory'), Hausdorff dimension (from geometric measure theory), upper box-counting dimension (from dynamical systems), and Assouad dimension (from the theory of metric spaces). These abstract embedding results are applied in the second part of the book to the finite-dimensional global attractors that arise in certain infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, deducing practical consequences from the existence of such attractors: a version of the Takens time-delay embedding theorem valid in spatially extended systems, and a result on parametrisation by point values. This book will appeal to all researchers with an interest in dimension theory, particularly those working in dynamical systems.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Finite-Dimensional Sets: 1. Lebesgue covering dimension; 2. Hausdorff measure and Hausdorff dimension; 3. Box-counting dimension; 4. An embedding theorem for subsets of RN; 5. Prevalence, probe spaces, and a crucial inequality; 6. Embedding sets with dH(X-X) finite; 7. Thickness exponents; 8. Embedding sets of finite box-counting dimension; 9. Assouad dimension; Part II. Finite-Dimensional Attractors: 10. Partial differential equations and nonlinear semigroups; 11. Attracting sets in infinite-dimensional systems; 12. Bounding the box-counting dimension of attractors; 13. Thickness exponents of attractors; 14. The Takens time-delay embedding theorem; 15. Parametrisation of attractors via point values; Solutions to exercises; References; Index.