Upper Semicontinuity of Attractors and Synchronization

Abstract In this paper we prove that diffusively coupled abstract semilinear parabolic systems synchronize. We apply the abstract results obtained to a class of ordinary differential equations and to reaction diffusion problems. The technique consists of proving that the attractors for the coupled differential equations are upper semicontinuous with respect to the attractor of a limiting problem, explicitly exhibited, in the diagonal.

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