Asymptotic behavior of solutions of nonlinear impulsive delay differential equations with positive and negative coefficients

This paper is concerned with the nonlinear impulsive delay differential equations with positive and negative coefficients

(*)

Sufficient conditions are obtained for every solution of equation (*) tending to a constant as t→∞.     

Numerical Hopf bifurcation of Runge–Kutta methods for a class of delay differential equations

In this paper, we consider the discretization of parameter-dependent delay differential equation of the form

It is shown that if the delay differential equation undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at τ=τ^*, then the discrete scheme undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at τ(h)=τ^*+O(h^p) for sufficiently small step size h, where p1 is the order of the Runge–Kutta method applied. The direction of numerical Hopf bifurcation and stability of bifurcating invariant curve are the same as that of delay differential equation.     

On the existence of positive periodic solutions for neutral functional differential equation with multiple deviating arguments

By means of the abstract continuation theory for k-contractions, some criteria are established for the existence and nonexistence of positive periodic solutions of the following neutral functional differential equation:

     

Oscillation criteria of second order half linear delay dynamic equations on time scales

In this paper, we establish some new oscillation criteria for a non autonomous second order delay dynamic equation

$${\left( {r\left( t \right)g\left( {{x^\Delta }\left( t \right)} \right)} \right)^\Delta } + p\left( t \right)f\left( {x\left( {\tau \left( t \right)} \right)} \right) = 0,$$

on a time scale T. Oscillation behavior of this equation is not studied before. Our results not only apply on differential equations when T=?, difference equations when T=? but can be applied on different types of time scales such as when T=q^? for q > 1 and also improve most previous results. Finally, we give some examples to illustrate our main results.

     

Oscillation of third order differential equation with damping term

We study asymptotic and oscillatory properties of solutions to the third order differential equation with a damping term

$$x'''(t) + q(t)x'(t) + r(t)\left| x \right|^\lambda (t)\operatorname{sgn} x(t) = 0,{\text{ }}t \geqslant 0.$$

We give conditions under which every solution of the equation above is either oscillatory or tends to zero. In case λ ? 1 and if the corresponding second order differential equation h″ + q(t)h = 0 is oscillatory, we also study Kneser solutions vanishing at infinity and the existence of oscillatory solutions.

     

On the optimal control of systems described by implicit evolution equations

We obtain conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an optimal control for the linear nonstationary operator-differential equation

$\frac{d}{{dt}}[A(t)y(t)] + B(t)y(t) = K(t)u(t) + f(t)$

with a quadratic performance criterion. The operators A(t) and B(t) are closed and may have nontrivial kernels. The results are applied to differential-algebraic equations and to partial differential equations that do not belong to the Cauchy-Kowalewskaya type.

     

Oscillation Criteria for Certain Fourth-Order Nonlinear Delay Differential Equations

In this article, we establish some new criteria for the oscillation of fourth-order nonlinear delay differential equations of the form

$$(r_2(t)(r_1(t)(y''(t))^\alpha)')' + p(t)(y''(t))^\alpha + q(t)f(y(g(t))) = 0$$

provided that the second-order equation

$$(r_2(t)z'(t))') + \frac{p(t)}{r_1(t)}z(t) = 0$$

is nonoscillatory or oscillatory.

     

The modulus semigroup for linear delay equations III

In this paper, we describe the modulus semigroup of the C₀-semigroup associated with the linear differential equation with delay

in the Banach lattice X×L_p(-h,0;X), where X is a Banach lattice with order continuous norm. The progress with respect to previous papers is that A may be an unbounded generator of a C₀-semigroup possessing a modulus semigroup.     

On an approach to the analysis of asymptotic properties of solutions of first-order ordinary delay differential equations

For the first-order ordinary delay differential equation

$$u'(t) + p(t)u(r(t)) = 0,$$

where p ∈ L _loc(?₊; ?₊), τ ∈ C(?₊; ?₊), τ(t) ≤ t for t ∈ ?₊, lim_t→+∞ τ(t) = +∞, and ?₊:= [0, ∞), we obtain new criteria for the existence of sign-definite and oscillating solutions, thus generalizing some earlier-known results.

     

An approximating algorithm for the solution of an integral equation from epidemics

The following delay integral equation

$ x(t)=\int\limits_{t-\tau}^{t}f(s,x(s))ds,\quad t\in \mathbb{R}, $

has been proposed by Cooke and Kaplan to describe the spread of certain infectious diseases with periodic contact rate that varies seasonally. This mathematical model can also be interpreted as an evolution equation of a single species population. The purpose of this paper is to present an approximating algorithm for the continuous positive solution of this integral equation from the theory of epidemics. This algorithm is obtained by applying the successive approximations method and the rectangle formula, used for the calculation of the approximate value of integrals which appear in the right-hand-side of the terms of the sequence of successive approximations. In order to establish this approximating algorithm, we will suppose that this integral equation has a unique solution. The main result contains also the error of approximation of the solution obtained by applying this approximating algorithm.