A simple proof of the Grobman–Hartman theorem for nonuniformly hyperbolic flows Original Research Article

We give a simple and direct proof of the Grobman–Hartman theorem for nonautonomous differential equations obtained from perturbing a nonuniform exponential dichotomy. In particular, we do not need to pass through discrete time and obtain the result as a consequence of a corresponding result for maps. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first direct approach for nonuniform exponential dichotomies. We also show that the conjugacies are continuous in time and Hölder continuous in space. In addition, we describe the dependence of the conjugacies on the perturbation, and we obtain a reversibility result for the conjugacies of reversible differential equations. We emphasize that the additional work required to consider nonuniform exponential dichotomies is substantial.