Asymptotic and periodic boundary value problems of mixed FDEs and wave solutions of lattice differential equations (Q1355848): Difference between revisions

The authors establish existence and approximation schemes of solutions to periodic or asymptotic boundary value problems of mixed functional differential equations of the form \[ x'(t)= f(x(t),x(t-\tau))+ \sum^m_{j=1} a_j[g(x(t+ r_j-\varepsilon\tau))+ g(x(t- r_j-\varepsilon\tau))- 2g(x(t-\varepsilon\tau))], \] where \(x\in \mathbb{R}\), \(f:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}\) and \(g: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) are continuous functions, \(\tau\geq 0\), \(\varepsilon=0\) or 1, \(a_j\) and \(r_j\), \(1\leq j\leq m\), are constants. Such equations arise from the study of traveling waves of infinitely coupled system of delay-differential equations of the type \[ u_n'(t)= f(u_n(t),u_n(t-\tau))+ \sum^m_{j=1} a_j[g(u_{n-j}(t-\varepsilon\tau))+ g(u_{n+j}(t- \varepsilon\tau))- 2g(u_n(t-\varepsilon\tau)], \] where \(n\in\mathbb{Z}\) and \(f(0,0)= f(k,k)=0\) for a constant \(k>0\). The authors use the technique of monotone iteration concepts of upper and lower solutions, \(S^1\)-degree and the equivariant bifurcation theory.