Estimation,dependence and stability of solutions of an iterative equation

Aequationes mathematicae - In this paper we study estimation, continuous dependence and Hyers–Ulam stability for continuous solutions of a second order iterative equation. First we give an...     

Flatness,plateau limit and limit length of single-plateau functions

In this paper we consider iteration of single-plateau functions, an important class of continuous functions with infinitely many forts, and investigate changes of number and length of plateaux under iteration.We use the indices flatness, plateau limit and limit length to formulate those changes. Furthermore, we compute the flatness, plateau limit and limit length for all the nine types of single-plateau functions.     

Global Solutions for Leading Coefficient Problem of Polynomial-like Iterative Equations

For some technical difficulties many known results on the existence of solutions of the polynomial-like iterative equation, even though they are given globally on a closed interval between two fixed points, require the coefficient of the first order iterate term to be large. Recently, great attentions have been paid to the so-called leading coefficient problem, i.e., the existence of solutions under the most natural assumption that the coefficient of the highest order iterate term, called the leading coefficient, does not vanish but plays the main role. Some results on solutions near a fixed point were obtained. In this paper we prove the existence of continuous solutions globally on a closed interval between two fixed points, which are approximated by sequences of solutions which are locally linear near an end-point.     

Critical periods of perturbations of reversible rigidly isochronous centers

In this paper we discuss bifurcation of critical periods in an m-th degree time-reversible system, which is a perturbation of an n-th degree homogeneous vector field with a rigidly isochronous center at the origin. We present period-bifurcation functions as integrals of analytic functions which depend on perturbation coefficients and reduce the problem of critical periods to finding zeros of a judging function. This procedure gives not only the number of critical periods bifurcating from the period annulus but also the location of these critical periods. Applying our procedure to the case n=m=2 we determine the maximum number of critical periods and their location; to the case n=m=3 we investigate the bifurcation of critical periods up to the first order in ε and obtain the expression of the second period-bifurcation function when the first one vanishes.     

Local bifurcations of critical periods for cubic Liénard equations with cubic damping

Continuing Chicone and Jacobs’ work for planar Hamiltonian systems of Newton’s type, in this paper we study the local bifurcation of critical periods near a nondegenerate center of the cubic Liénard equation with cubic damping and prove that at most 2 local critical periods can be produced from either a weak center of finite order or the linear isochronous center and that at most 1 local critical period can be produced from nonlinear isochronous centers.     

Small divisor problem for an analytic q-difference equation

Similar to the problem of linearization, the “small divisor problem” also arises in the discussion of invertible analytic solutions of a class of q-difference equations. In this paper we give the existence of such solutions under the Brjuno condition and prove that the equation may not have a nontrivial analytic solution when the Brjuno condition is violated. These results are applied to discussing a nonlinear iterative equation.     

Computation of bifurcation manifolds of linearly independent homoclinic orbits

Regarding the small perturbation as a parameter in an appropriate space of functions, we can discuss co-existence of homoclinic orbits for non-autonomous perturbations of an autonomous system in Rn and describe conditions of parameters for such degenerate homoclinic bifurcations with some bifurcation manifolds of infinite dimension. Since those manifolds determine the relation among parameters for such bifurcations, in this paper we give an algorithm to compute approximately those manifolds and concretely obtain their first order approximates.     

On uniformity of exponential dichotomies for delay equations

It is shown that there cannot exist a uniform exponential dichotomy for any linear delay equation with a positive finite delay.     

Oscillatory properties of certain nonlinear fractional nabla difference equations

In this paper, we investigate the oscillation of a class of nonlinear fractional nabla difference equations. Some oscillation criteria are established.