We introduce new weak topologies and spaces of Carathéodory functions where the solutions of the ordinary differential equations depend continuously on the initial data and vector fields. The induced local skew-product flow is proved to be continuous, and a notion of linearized skew-product flow is provided. Two applications are shown. First, the propagation of the exponential dichotomy over the trajectories of the linearized skew-product flow and the structure of the dichotomy or Sacker–Sell spectrum. Second, how particular bounded absorbing sets for the process defined by a Carathéodory vector field f provide bounded pullback attractors for the processes with vector fields in the alpha-limit set, the omega-limitset or the whole hull of f. Conditions for the existence of a pullback or a global attractor for the skew-product semiflow, as well as application examples are also given.
