Dichotomic maps for delayed equations

The aim of this work is to apply the method of “dichotomic maps” to study stability of the null solutions of delayed functional differential equations. Preliminaries are presented followed by proofs of main theorems on simple and asymptotic stability. Some particular cases which have been studied by others authors with more restrictive hypotheses and more elaborated methods are showed as illustrative examples enhancing the advantages of the dichotomic maps approach.     

Asymptotic stability for delayed logistic type equations

We study the stability of scalar delayed equations of logistic type with a positive equilibrium and a linear logistic term. The global asymptotic stability of the positive equilibrium, called the carrying capacity, is proven imposing a condition on a negative feedback term without delay dominating the delayed effect. It turns out that this assumption is a necessary and sufficient condition for the linearized equation about the positive equilibrium to be asymptotically stable, globally in the delays. The global stability of more general scalar delay differential equations is also addressed.     

Non-monotone traveling waves and entire solutions for a delayed nonlocal dispersal equation

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves and entire solutions for a delayed nonlocal dispersal equation with convolution- type crossing-monostable nonlinearity. We first establish the existence of non-monotone traveling waves. By Ikehara’s Tauberian theorem, we further prove the asymptotic behavior of traveling waves, including monotone and non-monotone ones. Then, based on the obtained asymptotic behavior, the uniqueness of the traveling waves is proved. Finally, the entire solutions are considered. By introducing two auxiliary monostable equations and establishing some comparison arguments for the three equations, some new types of entire solutions are constructed via the traveling wavefronts and spatially independent solutions of the auxiliary equations.     

Analytical approximations for the periodic motion of the Duffing system with delayed feedback

In this study, the homotopy analysis method is developed to give periodic solutions of delayed differential equations that describe time-delayed position feedback on the Duffing system. With this technique, some approximate analytical solutions of high accuracy for some possible solutions are captured, which agree well with the numerical solutions in the whole time domain. Two examples of dynamic systems are considered, focusing on the periodic motions near a Hopf bifurcation of an equilibrium point. It is found that the current technique leads to higher accurate prediction on the local dynamics of time-delayed systems near a Hopf bifurcation than the energy analysis method or the traditional method of multiple scales.     

Traveling waves for nonlocal and non-monotone delayed reaction-diffusion equations

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a nonlocal and non-monotone delayed reaction-diffusion equation. Based on the construction of two associated auxiliary reaction diffusion equations with monotonicity and by using the traveling wavefronts of the auxiliary equations, the existence of the positive traveling wave solutions for c 〉 c. is obtained. Also, the exponential asymptotic behavior in the negative infinity was established. Moreover, we apply our results to some reactiondiffusion equations with spatio-temporal delay to obtain the existence of traveling waves. These results cover, complement and/or improve some existing ones in the literature.     

Dynamics of a delayed two-coupled oscillator with excitatory-to-excitatory connection

In this paper, we consider a neural network model consisting of two coupled oscillators with delayed feedback and excitatory-to-excitatory connection. We study how the strength of the connections between the oscillators affects the dynamics of the neural network. We give a full classification of all equilibria in the parameter space and obtain its linear stability by analyzing the characteristic equation of the linearized system. We also investigate the spatio-temporal patterns of bifurcated periodic oscillations by using the symmetric bifurcation theory of delay differential equations combined with representation theory of Lie groups. Moreover, the stability and bifurcation direction of the bifurcated periodic solutions are obtained by employing center manifold reduction and normal form theory. Some numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the theoretical results.     

Multistability in a system of two coupled oscillators with delayed feedback

In this paper, nonlocal dynamics of a system of two differential equations with a compactly supported nonlinearity and delay is studied. For some set of initial conditions asymptotics of solutions of considered system is constructed. By this asymptotics we build a special mapping. Dynamics of this mapping describes dynamics of initial system in general: it is proved that stable cycles of this mapping correspond to exponentially orbitally stable relaxation periodic solutions of initial system of delay differential equations. It is shown that amplitude, period of solutions of initial system, and number of coexisting stable solutions depend crucially on coupling parameter. Algorithm for constructing many coexisting stable solutions is described.     

Nontrivial solvability of a class of nonlinear integro-differential equations of second order

The article is devoted to the study of nontrivial solvability and the asymptotic behavior of solutions for some classes of nonlinear integro-dofferential equations with a noncompact operator in a special case. Combining special factorization methods with the methods of the theory of linear integral equations of convolution type, we prove existence theorems for these classes of equations. With the help of a priori estimates, we calculate the limits of solutions obtained at infinity. The examples exhibited in the article are of mathematical interest in their own right. They are particular cases of the equations considered and have important applications in quantum mechanics.     

The stability of a non-autonomous functional-differential equation relative to part of the variables

The asymptotic stability and instability of the trivial solution of a functional-differential equation of delay type relative to part of the variables are investigated using limit equations and a Lyapunov function whose derivative is sign-definite. The theorems thus obtained are used to solve the problem of stabilizing mechanical control systems with delayed feedback. As examples, solutions of problems of the uniaxial and triaxial stabilization of the rotational motion of a rigid body with a delay in the control system are presented.     

Robust synchronization of delayed neural networks based on adaptive control and parameters identification

This paper investigates synchronization dynamics of delayed neural networks with all the parameters unknown. By combining the adaptive control and linear feedback with the updated law, some simple yet generic criteria for determining the robust synchronization based on the parameters identification of uncertain chaotic delayed neural networks are derived by using the invariance principle of functional differential equations. It is shown that the approaches developed here further extend the ideas and techniques presented in recent literature, and they are also simple to implement in practice. Furthermore, the theoretical results are applied to a typical chaotic delayed Hopfied neural networks, and numerical simulation also demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed technique.     

Semiconductor ring laser subject to delayed optical feedback: Bifurcations and stability

We study semiconductor ring lasers subject to delayed optical feedback from one or two short external cavities. In case of two cavities we consider the feedback strengths and phases to be either symmetric or asymmetric feedback. When feedback is symmetric, the laser operates in a bi-directional continuous wave or periodic regime for most parameter values. Only for some small parameter regions complex dynamics, such as quasi-periodicity and chaos are obtained. When the feedback is asymmetric complex dynamical regimes, including chaos, are obtained in large parameter regions. We explain complex dynamical regimes obtained in both symmetric and asymmetric feedback cases by linear stability of the stationary solutions calculated using DDE-BIFTOOL.     

Steady state bifurcation of a periodically excited system under delayed feedback controls

This paper investigates the steady state bifurcation of a periodically excited system subject to time-delayed feedback controls by the combined method of residue harmonic balance and polynomial homotopy continuation. Three kinds of delayed feedback controls are considered to examine the effects of different delayed feedback controls and delay time on the steady state response. By means of polynomial homotopy continuation, all the possible steady state solutions corresponding the third-order superharmonic and second-subharmonic responses are derived analytically, i.e. without numerical integration. It is found that the delayed feedback changes the bifurcating curves qualitatively and possibly eliminates the saddle-node bifurcation during resonant. The delayed position-velocity coupling and the delayed velocity feedback controls can destabilize the steady state responses. Coexisting periodic solutions, period-doubling bifurcation and even chaos are found in these control systems. The neighborhood of the periodic solutions is verified numerically in the phase portraits. The various effects of time delay on the steady state response are investigated. Many new phenomena are observed.     

Boundedness and global exponential stability for delayed differential equations with applications

The boundedness of solutions for a class of n-dimensional differential equations with distributed delays is established by assuming the existence of instantaneous negative feedbacks which dominate the delay effect. As an important by-product, some criteria for global exponential stability of equilibria are obtained. The results are illustrated with applications to delayed neural networks and population dynamics models.     

Extremal equilibria for reaction-diffusion equations in bounded domains and applications

We show the existence of two special equilibria, the extremal ones, for a wide class of reaction-diffusion equations in bounded domains with several boundary conditions, including non-linear ones. They give bounds for the asymptotic dynamics and so for the attractor. Some results on the existence and/or uniqueness of positive solutions are also obtained. As a consequence, several well-known results on the existence and/or uniqueness of solutions for elliptic equations are revisited in a unified way obtaining, in addition, information on the dynamics of the associated parabolic problem. Finally, we ilustrate the use of the general results by applying them to the case of logistic equations. In fact, we obtain a detailed picture of the positive dynamics depending on the parameters appearing in the equation.     

Bifurcations in Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equations

We consider the local dynamics of the classical Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation and its generalizations and study the problem of the existence and asymptotic behavior of periodic solutions and tori. The most interesting results are obtained in the so-called infinite-dimensional critical cases. Considering these cases, we construct special nonlinear partial differential equations that play the role of normal forms and whose nonlocal dynamics thus determine the behavior of solutions of the original boundary value problem.     

Explicit asymptotic limits for a class of discrete Volterra equations

This paper presents explicit asymptotic limits for some solutions of a special kind of Volterra difference equations and exhibits a class of equations having asymptotic equilibrium.     

Entire solutions in monostable reaction-diffusion equations with delayed nonlinearity

Entire solutions for monostable reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delay in one-dimensional spatial domain are considered. A comparison argument is employed to prove the existence of entire solutions which behave as two traveling wave solutions coming from both directions. Some new entire solutions are also constructed by mixing traveling wave solutions with heteroclinic orbits of the spatially averaged ordinary differential equations, and the existence of such a heteroclinic orbit is established using the monotone dynamical systems theory. Key techniques include the characterization of the asymptotic behaviors of solutions as t→−∞ in term of appropriate subsolutions and supersolutions. Two models of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delay arising from mathematical biology are given to illustrate main results.     

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY IN N-SPECIES NONAUTONOMOUS LOTKA-VOLTERRACOMPETITIVE SYSTEMS WITH DELAYS

A delayed n-species nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra type competitive system without dominating instantaneous negative feedback is investigated. By means of a suitable Lyapunov functional, sufficient conditions are derived for the global asymptotic stability of the positive solutions of the system. As a corollary, it is shown that the global asymptotic stability of the positive solution is maintained provided that the delayed negative feedbacks dominate other interspecific interaction effects with delays and the delays are sufficiently small.     

On employment of semidefinite functions in stability of delayed equations

Four new stability theorems for nonautonomous delayed equations are established by the Lyapunov-Razumikhin approach with functions and its derivatives semidefinite. To do this, assume the collection of right-hand side translations in time has limit points which govern limiting equations. A corollary, which relates global asymptotic stability for the equation to that for limiting equations, and an illustrative example are given to show the applications of the established theorems.     

Delay-dependent stability of linear multistep methods for DAEs with multiple delays

This paper aims to investigate the asymptotic stability of linear multistep (LM) methods for linear differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) with multiple delays. Based on the argument principle, we first establish the delay-dependent stability criteria of analytic solutions; then, we propose some practically checkable conditions for weak delay-dependent stability of numerical solutions derived by implicit LM methods. Lagrange interpolations are used to compute the delayed terms. Several numerical examples are given to illustrate the theoretical results.