
92 
Shui-Nee Chow and Masahiro Yamashita 
Thus  the  set  of  initial  data  ('(("respectively)  which  give  bounded  solutions  on 
[0, 
w)((-w,O]) 
constitutes the hyperplane which is 
a 
shift by  the constant  vector 
(I 
- 
P) 
/" 
WO, 
t)s(t)dt(Q 
lo 
W, 
t)g(t)(dt) 
m 
--m 
of  the unperturbed space 
R(P)(R(I 
- 
Q))). 
Let 
+ 
iP(O,t)g(t)dt 
- 
(I 
- 
P) 
@(O,t)g(t)dt. 
d=QL 
1: 
Then we  have the following lemma which  is the starting point of  the paper. 
Lemma 
4.1. 
System 
(4.1) 
has 
a 
bounded solution on 
R 
if 
and only 
if 
(4.5) 
+ 
d 
E 
R(P) 
+ 
R(1- 
Q). 
Proof. 
This is obvious because condition 
(4.5) 
is equivalent to say that two hyperplanes 
defined by 
(4.3) 
and 
(4.4) 
intersect. 
I 
The  geometrical  statement  in  Lemma 
4.1 
can  be  expressed  analytically  by  using 
bounded solutions of  the adjoint system 
of 
(4.2): 
where 
A'(t) 
is the transpose of 
A(t). 
Since system 
(4.2) 
has exponential dichotomies 
on 
[0, 
w) 
with projection 
P 
and on 
(-w,O] 
with projection 
Q, 
its adjoint system 
(4.6) 
automatically has exponential dichotomies on 
[0, 
w) 
with projection 
I 
- 
P' 
and on 
(-w,O] 
with projection 
I 
- 
Q', 
where 
P' 
and 
Q' 
are adjoint operators of 
P 
and 
Q 
respectively. 
Notice that 
{R(I- 
P*)nR(Q*)} 
= 
{R(P)+R(I-Q)}' 
is the subspace of  initial 
points at 
t 
= 
0 
of  bounded solutions of  the adjoint system 
(4.6). 
Therefore condition 
(4.5) 
is  equivalent to saying that 
d 
is annihilated by 
4(0) 
where 
4(t) 
is any bounded 
solution of  the adjoint system 
(4.6). 
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