Control Semiflows, Chain Controllability, and the Selgrade Decomposition for Linear Delay Systems

Abstract A continuous semiflow is introduced for linear control systems with delays in the states and controls and bounded control range. The state includes the control functions. It is proved that there exists a unique chain control set which corresponds to the chain recurrent set of the semiflow. The semiflow can be lifted to a linear semiflow on an infinite dimensional vector bundle with chain transitive base flow. A decomposition into exponentially separated subbundles is provided by a recent generalization of Selgrade’s theorem.