Existence and congruence of global attractors for damped and forced integrable and nonintegrable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Abstract: We study two damped and forced discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on the one-dimensional infinite lattice. Without damping and forcing they are represented by the integrable Ablowitz-Ladik equation (AL) featuring non-local cubic nonlinear terms, and its standard (nonintegrable) counterpart with local cubic nonlinear terms (DNLS). The global existence of a unique solution to the initial value problem for both, the damped and forced AL and DNLS, is proven. It is further shown that for sufficiently close initial data, their corresponding solutions stay close for all times. Concerning the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions to the damped and forced AL and DNLS, for the former a sufficient condition for the existence of a restricted global attractor is established while it is shown that the latter possesses a global attractor. Finally, we prove the congruence of the restricted global AL attractor and the DNLS attractor for dynamics ensuing from initial data contained in an appropriate bounded subset in a Banach space.