Groupoid morphisms as an algebraic structure for nonautonomous dynamics

Abstract

We present groupoid morphisms as an algebraic structure for nonautonomous dynamics, as well as a generalization of group morphisms, which describe classic dynamical systems. We introduce the structure of cotranslations, as a specific kind of groupoid morphism, and establish a correspondence between cotranslations and skew-products. We give applications of cotranslations to nonautonomous equations, both in differences and differential. We obtain results about the differentiability of cotranslations, as well as dimension invariance and diagonalization (through a generalized notion of kinematic similarity) for a partial version of them, admitting noninvertible transformations.