Persistence of Minimal Invariant Sets for Certain Set-Valued Dynamical Systems: A Boundary Mapping Approach

Abstract: We study the problem of persistence of minimal invariant sets with smooth boundary for a certain class of discrete-time set-valued dynamical systems, naturally arising in the context of random dynamical systems with bounded noise. In particular, we introduce a single-valued map, the so-called boundary map, which has the property that a certain class of invariant submanifolds for this map is in one-to-one correspondence with invariant sets for the corresponding set-valued map. We show that minimal invariant sets with smooth boundary persist under small perturbations of the set-valued map, provided that the associated boundary map is normally hyperbolic at the unit normal bundle of the boundary.