Special Session 117: Patterns and Attractors in Nonlinear Dynamics

Nonautonomous differential equations in the presence of bounded noise
Iacopo P. Longo
University of Exeter
England
Co-Author(s):    Konstantinos Kourliouros, Martin Rasmussen
Abstract:
Nonautonomous systems subject to noise arise naturally in many applied contexts. Particularly relevant are those featuring time-dependent parameters and uncertainties, which may drive the emergence of tipping points. In this talk, we focus on the case of bounded noise, where the dynamics can be captured topologically via deterministic set-valued dynamical systems: initial conditions are evolved under all admissible noise realisations, abstracting from probabilistic details. However, as these systems operate on the space of nonempty compact subsets---a space lacking Banach structure---they pose substantial analytical and numerical challenges. In particular, bifurcation analysis of attractors remains a significant obstacle. To address this, we derive a higher-dimensional single-valued determinisitic dynamical system which characterizes the evolution of the boundary of invariant sets (typically attractors) of certain differential inclusions.