\documentclass[reqno]{amsart} \usepackage{hyperref} \AtBeginDocument{{\noindent\small \emph{Electronic Journal of Differential Equations}, Vol. 2008(2008), No. 21, pp. 1--18.\newline ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu \newline ftp ejde.math.txstate.edu (login: ftp)} \thanks{\copyright 2008 Texas State University - San Marcos.} \vspace{9mm}} \begin{document} \title[\hfilneg EJDE-2008/21\hfil Almost automorphic functions] {Almost automorphic functions with values in $p$-Fr\'echet spaces} \author[C. G. Gal, S. G. Gal, G. M. N'Gu\'er\'ekata\hfil EJDE-2008/21\hfilneg] {Ciprian G. Gal, Sorin G. Gal, Gaston M. N'Gu\'{e}r\'{e}kata} \address{Ciprian G. Gal \newline Department of Mathematics \\ University of Missouri \\ Columbia, MO 65211, USA} \email{ciprian@math.missouri.edu} \address{Sorin G. Gal \newline Department of Mathematics and Computer Science \\ University of Oradea \\ 410087 Oradea, Romania} \email{galso@uoradea.ro} \address{Gaston M. N'Gu\'er\'ekata \newline Department of Mathematics \\ Morgan State University \\ Baltimore, MD 21251, USA} \email{Gaston.N'Guerekata@morgan.edu} \thanks{Submitted December 19, 2007. Published February 21, 2008.} \subjclass[2000]{43A60, 34C35} \keywords{Almost automorphic; asymptotically almost automorphic; \hfill\break\indent weakly almost automorphic; semigroup of linear bounded operator; $p$-Fr\'{e}chet space} \begin{abstract} In this paper we develop a theory of almost automorphic functions with values in $p$-Fr\'echet spaces, $0 a$ for some real number $a$, then $f(t)=0_{X}$ for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$; \item[(viii)] If $A: X\to Y$ is continuous, where $Y$ is another $q$ -Fr\'echet space, $00$ be fixed. There exists $\delta >0$, such that $\|h(t)\|<\varepsilon $, for all $t>\delta $. From the continuity of $Q$ on $[0,\delta ]$, there exists $M>0$ such that $Q(t)\leq M$, for all $t\in [0,\delta ]$. In conclusion, $0\leq Q(t)\leq M+\varepsilon ,\forall t\in \mathbb{R_{+}}$, which implies the desired conclusion. (iv) Let $f=g+h$ be the decomposition in Definition \ref{def3.6}. By Theorem \ref{thm3.3}, (viii), $\phi \circ g:\mathbb{R}\to Y$ is almost automorphic and also by hypothesis, $\phi \circ f$, $\phi \circ g$, are continuous on $\mathbb{R_{+}}$. Denote now $\Gamma (t)=\phi (f(t))-\phi (g(t))$. Let $\varepsilon >0$. By the uniform continuity of $\phi $ on the compact set $B$ , there exists $\delta >0$, such that $\|\phi (x)-\phi (y)\|_{2}<\varepsilon $, for all $\|x-y\|_{1}<\delta $, $x,y\in B$. On the other hand, by hypothesis, we have $\lim_{t\to +\infty }\|h(t)\|_{1}=0$, therefore there exists $t_{0}$ (depending on $\delta $ ), such that $\|h(t)\|_{1}=\|f(t)-g(t)\|_{1}<\delta $, for all $t>t_{0}$. Then, for $t>t_{0}$ we obtain, \begin{equation*} \|\Gamma (t)\|_{2}=\|\phi (f(t))-\phi (g(t))\|_{2}<\varepsilon , \end{equation*} for all $t>t_{0}$, which means $\lim_{t\to +\infty }\|\Gamma (t)\|_{2}=0$. (v) Let us suppose now that $f$ has two decompositions $f=g_{1}+h_{1}=g_{2}+h_{2}$. For all $t\geq 0$ we get $g_{1}(t)-g_{2}(t)=h_{2}(t)-h_{1}(t)$, which implies \begin{equation*} \lim_{t\to +\infty }\|g_{1}(t)-g_{2}(t)\|\leq \lim_{t\to +\infty }\|h_{2}(t)\|+\lim_{t\to +\infty }\|h_{1}(t)\|=0. \end{equation*} Consider the sequence $(n)$. Since $g_{1}-g_{2}$ is almost automorphic, there exists a subsequence $(n_{k})$ such that \begin{equation*} \lim_{k\to +\infty }\|[g_{1}(t+n_{k})-g_{2}(t+n_{k})]-F(t)\|=0 \end{equation*} and \begin{equation*} \lim_{k\to +\infty }\|F(t-n_{k})-[g_{1}(t)-g_{2}(t)]\|=0, \end{equation*} with the convergence holding pointwise on $\mathbb{R}$. But \begin{equation*} \|F(t)\|\leq \|F(t)-[g_{1}(t+n_{k})-g_{2}(t+n_{k})]\|+\|g_{1}(t+n_{k})-g_{2}(t+n_{k})\|. \end{equation*} Passing to the limit as $k\to +\infty $ and taking the above relations into account, it follows $\|F(t)\|=0,\forall t\in \mathbb{R_{+}}$, which implies $g_{1}(t)-g_{2}(t)=0,\forall t$. Therefore, $h_{2}(t)-h_{1}(t)=0$, for all $t\in \mathbb{R_{+}}$, which proves the theorem. \end{proof} \subsection*{Remark} Concerning the derivative and indefinite integral of asymptotically almost automorphic functions, we have the same negative phenomenon as in the case of almost automorphic functions (see the Remark after the proof of Theorem \ref{thm3.3}). We also have the following result. \begin{theorem} \label{thm3.8} If $(X,+,\cdot,\|\cdot\|)$ is a $p$-Fr\'echet space with $0 0$, or $x(t)=0, \forall t \in {\mathbb{R}}$. \item[(ii)] Let $x:\mathbb{R}_{+}\to X$ and $f:\mathbb{R} \to X$ be two continuous functions and $T=(T(t))_{t\in \mathbb{R} _{+}}$ be a strongly continuous semigroup of bounded linear operators on $X$. Suppose that \begin{equation*} x(t)=T(t)(x(0))+\int_{0}^{t}T(t-s)(f(s))ds,t\in \mathbb{R}_{+}. \end{equation*} Then for given $\mathit{t}$ in $\mathbb{R}$ and $b>a>0$, $a+t>0$, we have \begin{equation*} x(t+b)=T(t+a)(x(b-a))+\int_{-a}^{t}T(t-s)(f(s+b))ds. \end{equation*} \end{itemize} \end{theorem} \begin{proof} (i) Let us suppose that we have $\inf_{t\in {\mathbb{R}}}\|x(t)\|=0$. Let $(s_{n}')_{n}$ be a sequence of real numbers such that $\lim_{n\to +\infty }\|x[s_{n}']\|=0$. Since, by hypothesis, as function of $t$, the function $x(t)$ is almost automorphic, by Definition \ref{def3.2}, we can extract a subsequence $(s_{n})_{n}$ of $(s_{n}')_{n}$ such that for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$, there exists $y(t)\in X$ with the property \begin{equation*} \lim_{n\to +\infty }\|y(t)-x(t+s_{n})\|=\lim_{n\to +\infty }\|y(t-s_{n})-x(t)\|=0, \end{equation*} with the above convergence on $\mathbb{R}$ being pointwise. Also, we can easily deduce that \begin{equation*} x(t+s_{n})=T(t+s_{n})[x_{0}]=T(t)(T(s_{n})[x_{0}])=T(t)[x(s_{n})]. \end{equation*} From the above limits, we obtain \begin{equation*} \|y(t)\|\leq \|y(t)-x(t+s_{n})\|+\|x(t+s_{n})\|\leq \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} \|y(t)-x(t+s_{n})\|+\||T(t)\||\cdot \|x(s_{n})\|, \end{equation*} thus passing to the limit as $n\to +\infty $, it follows that $\|y(t)\|=0$, that is, $y(t)=0_{X}$, for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$. This immediately implies $x(t)=0$, for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$. (ii) As in the proof of \cite[Theorem 2.4.7]{n1}, we obtain \begin{equation*} x(t+b)=T(t+a)\Big[ x(b-a)-\int_{0}^{b-a}T(b-a-s)(f(s))ds\Big] % +\int_{0}^{t+b}T(t+b-s)(f(s))ds. \end{equation*} Then from the above relation we get \begin{align*} & x(t+b)+T(t+a)\Big[ \int_{0}^{b-a}T(b-a-s)(f(s))ds\Big] \\ &=T(t+a)[x(b-a)]+\int_{0}^{t+b}T(t+b-s)(f(s))ds. \end{align*} Taking into account that $T$ commutes with the integral (since it is linear and continuous operator), by the property $T(u+v)=T(u)[T(v)],\forall u,v\in \mathbb{R}_{+}$ and by the substitution $u=s-b$, we obtain \begin{equation*} x(t+b)+\int_{-b}^{-a}T(t-u)[f(u+b)]du=T(t+a)[x(b-a)]+ \int_{-b}^{t}T(t-u)[f(u+b)]du. \end{equation*} But because $t>-a$, we can write \begin{equation*} \int_{-b}^{t}T(t-u)[f(u+b)]du=\int_{-b}^{-a}T(t-u)[f(u+b)]du+ \int_{-a}^{t}T(t-u)[f(u+b)]du, \end{equation*} we immediately get the required relation from the statement of theorem. The theorem is proved. \end{proof} In what follows, we will be concerned with the behavior of asymptotically almost automorphic semigroups of linear operators $T=T(t),t\in \mathbb{R} _{+} $ on $p$-Fr\'{e}chet spaces, $00$ and right-continuous at $t=0$, for each $x\in X$. The mapping $u(\cdot ,x)$ is called a motion originating at $x\in X$. \item[(iii)] $u(t,\cdot ) :X\to X$ is continuous for each $t\geq 0$ ; \item[(iv)] $u(t+s,x)=u(t,u(s,x)),\forall x\in X$, for all $t,s\in \mathbb{R}_{+}$. \end{itemize} \end{definition} \begin{theorem} \label{thm4.5} Let $(X,+,\cdot,\|\cdot\|)$ be a $p$-Fr\'echet space, where $00 $, $\exists l(\epsilon) >0 $ such that any interval of length $l( \epsilon) $ of the real line contains at least one point $\xi$ with \begin{equation*} \|f(t+\xi) - f(t)\| <\epsilon,\quad \forall t\in \mathbb{R}. \end{equation*} \end{definition} \subsection*{Remarks} (1) A set $E\subset \mathbb{R}$ is called relatively dense (in $\mathbb{R}$), if there exists a number $l>0$ such that every interval $(a,a+l)$ contains at least one point of $E$. By using this concept, we can reformulate Definition \ref{def5.1} as follows: $f:\mathbb{R}\to X$ is called B-almost periodic if for every $\varepsilon >0$, there exists a relatively dense set $\{\tau \}_{\varepsilon }$, such that \begin{equation*} \sup_{t\in \mathbb{R}}\|f(t+\tau )-f(t)\|\leq \varepsilon ,\quad \mbox{for all }\tau \in \{\tau \}_{\varepsilon }. \end{equation*} Also, each $\tau \in \{\tau \}_{\varepsilon }$ is called $\varepsilon $-almost period of $f$. (2) It was proved in \cite[Theorem 3.6]{g6} that the range of an B-almost periodic function with values in the $p$-Fr\'{e}chet space $(X,+,\cdot ,\|\cdot \|)$ is relatively compact (r.c. for short) in the complete metric space $(X,D)$, with $D(x,y)=\|x-y\|$. Similar to the case of Banach spaces, we have developed a theory of Bochner's transform for $p$-Fr\'{e}chet spaces (see \cite{g6}), as follows. Let us denote $AP(X) =\{ f:\mathbb{R}\to X;\mbox{ }f \mbox{ is B-almost periodic}\} $ and for $f\in AP(X) $, let us define $\| f\| _{b}=\sup \{ \|f(t) \| ; t\in \mathbb{R}\} $. By \cite[Theorem 3.2]{g6}, we get $\|f\|_{b}<+\infty $. It follows that $\|\cdot \|_{b}$ also is a $p$-norm on the space \begin{equation*} C_{b}(\mathbb{R},X) =\{f:\mathbb{R}\to X; \mbox{ is continuous and bounded on }\mathbb{R}\}. \end{equation*} In addition, since $(X,D)$ is a complete metric space, by standard reasonings it follows that $C_{b}(\mathbb{R},X)$ becomes complete metric space with respect to the metric $D_{b}(f,g)=\|f-g\|_{b}$, that is, $(C_{b}( \mathbb{R},X),\|\cdot \|_{b})$ becomes a $p$-Fr\'{e}chet space. Then, the result in \cite[Theorems 3.2 and 3.5]{g6} shows that $AP(X) $ is a closed subset of $C_{b}(\mathbb{R},X) $, that is, $( AP(X) ,D_{b}) $ is complete metric space and therefore $(AP(X),\|\cdot \|_{b})$ becomes $p$-Fr\'{e}chet space. The Bochner transform on $C_{b}(\mathbb{R},X)$ is defined as in the case of Banach spaces, by \begin{equation*} \tilde{f}:\mathbb{R}\to C_{b}(\mathbb{R},X),\tilde{f}(s)(t)=f(t+s), \end{equation*} for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$ and we write $\tilde{f}=B(f)$. The properties of Bochner's transform on $p$-Fr\'{e}chet spaces, $00$ independent of $n, m$. \end{itemize} Then, $f$ is B-almost periodic. \end{theorem} It is clear that $AP(X)\subset AA(X)$, and in general, the concepts of B-almost periodicity and almost automorphy are not equivalent. However Theorem \ref{thm5.4} allows us to prove the equivalence between the B-almost periodicity and almost automorphy of the ``orbits'' of a group/semigroup. In this sense, we present the following result. \begin{theorem} \label{thm5.5} Let $(T(t))_{t\in \mathbb{R}}$ be a family of uniformly bounded group of bounded linear operators on a $p$-Fr\'echet space $(X,+,\cdot,\|\cdot\|)$, $00$ such that $\|T(t)(x_0)\|\leq M\|x_0\|$, for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$. Also, the range $R_{T(t)(x_0)}$ is relatively compact since $T(t)(x_0)$ is almost automorphic as function of $t$ (see Theorem \ref{thm3.3}, (v)). Thus given an r.d. sequence of real numbers $(s'_{n})$, we can find a subsequence $(s_{n})$ such that $% (T(s_n)(x_0))_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ is Cauchy. Now, in view of the following inequality \begin{equation*} c\|[T(t+s_n)(x_{0})-T(t+s_m)(x_0)]\|\leq \|[T(s_n)(x_{0})-T(s_m)(x_0)]\|, \end{equation*} for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$, (where $c=\frac{1}{M}$) we conclude that $T(t)(x_0)$ is B-almost periodic by Theorem \ref{thm5.4}. \end{proof} We remark that Theorem \ref{thm5.5} is an extension of a result \cite{c1} in Banach spaces to $p$-Fr\'{e}chet spaces, $0 0$ there exists $\delta > 0$ such that $\|x(t_{1})-x(t_{2})\|<\delta$ implies $\|x(t+t_{1})-x(t+t_{2})\|< \epsilon$ for all $t\in \mathbb{R}$. \end{definition} \begin{example} \label{exa5.7} \rm If $(T(t))_{t\in {\mathbb{R}}}$ is a family of uniformly bounded group of continuous linear operators on $X$, then the function $x(t):=T(t)(e)$ for some $e\in X$ is a strongly stable motion in $X$. \end{example} \begin{theorem} \label{thm5.8} If $x\in C({\mathbb{R}}, X)$ is a strongly stable motion with a relatively compact range in $X$, then $x\in AP(X)$. \end{theorem} The proof of the above theorem is a direct consequence of Theorem \ref% {thm5.3}. By Definition \ref{def3.6} we have introduced the concept of asymptotically almost automorphic function with values in a $p$-Fr\'echet space, $0