Global exponential attraction for multi-valued semidynamical systems with application to delay differential equations without uniqueness

Abstract

We first prove the existence of a compact positively invariant set which exponentially attracts any bounded set for abstract multi-valued semidynamical systems. Then, we apply the abstract theory to handle retarded ordinary differential equations and lattice dynamical systems, as well as reactiondiffusion equations with infinite delays. We do not assume any Lipschitz condition on the nonlinear term, just a continuity assumption together with growth and dissipative conditions, so that uniqueness of the Cauchy problem fails to be true.