| It is mainly studied in this paper the Conley index and shape index of compact isolated invariant sets of local dynamical systems on non-compact metric spaces.First, we establish the local dynamical systems on general topological spaces and its attractor theory, and give the existence of the Lyapunov functions of at-tractors and the Morse decomposition of sequential compact invariant sets. Then,from the view of attractor theory, we provide a new frame on the Conley index theory of infinite dimensional dynamical systems, by which this theory is greatly simplified. As to the shape index, we introduce a new shape Conley index pair,and based on the attractor theory of topological dynamical systems we construct the shape Conley index theory and Morse theory. This work generalizes the con-sequences on locally compact spaces to the case of non-locally compact spaces,and it makes the calculation and theoretical analysis of the shape index much more convenient and flexible. |