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Exponential dichotomies for elliptic PDE on radial domains

It was recently shown by the authors that a semilinear elliptic equation can be represented as an infinite-dimensional dynamical system in terms of boundary data on a shrinking one-parameter family of domains. The resulting system is ill-posed, in the sense that solutions do not typically exist forward or backward in time. In this paper we consider a radial family of domains and prove that the linearized system admits an exponential dichotomy, with the unstable subspace corresponding to the boundary data of weak solutions to the linear PDE. This generalizes the spatial dynamics approach, which applies to infinite cylindrical (channel) domains, and also generalizes previous work on radial domains as we impose no symmetry assumptions on the equation or its solutions.