Nodal parametrisation of analytic attractors

Friz and Robinson showed that analytic global attractors consisting of peri odic functions can be parametrised using the values of the solution at a fi nite number of points throughout the domain, a result applicable to the 2d Navier-Stokes equations with periodic boundary conditions. In this paper we extend the argument to cover any attractor consisting of analytic function s; in particular we are now able to treat the 2d Navier-Stokes equations wi th Dirichlet boundary conditions.