RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Characterization of cocycles attractors for nonautonomous reaction-diffusion equations A1 Cardoso, Carlos A1 Langa, Juan A1 Obaya, Rafael AB In this paper, we describe in detail the global and cocycle attractors related to nonautonomous scalar differential equations with diffusion. In particular, we investigate reaction–diffusion equations with almost-periodic coefficients. The associated semiflows are strongly monotone which allow us to give a full characterization of the cocycle attractor. We prove that, when the upper Lyapunov exponent associated to the linear part of the equations is positive, the flow is persistent in the positive cone, and we study the stability and the set of continuity points of the section of each minimal set in the global attractor for the skew product semiflow. We illustrate our result with some nontrivial examples showing the richness of the dynamics on this attractor, which in some situations shows internal chaotic dynamics in the Li–Yorke sense. We also include the sublinear and concave cases in order to go further in the characterization of the attractors, including, for instance, a nonautonomous version of the Chafee–Infante equation. In this last case we can show exponentially forward attraction to the cocycle (pullback) attractors in the positive cone of solutio PB World Scientific SN 1793-6551 YR 2016 FD 2016 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25801 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25801 LA eng NO International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Vol. 26, No. 08, 1650135 (2016) NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 22-nov-2024