Global stability for separable nonlinear delay differential equations, (Q814056): Difference between revisions

The author obtains sufficient conditions for global asymptotic stability of the zero solution of separable nonlinear delay differential equations of the form \[ y'(t)= -\sum^m_{i=0} a_i(t) g_i(y(\tau_i(t))),\;t\geq t_0,\;y(t) = \phi(t), \] where every \(a_i : [t_0, \infty) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is continuous and bounded such that \[ a_i(t) \geq 0, \sum^m_{i=0} a_i (t) > 0, \int^\infty_{t_0}( \sum^m_{i=0}a_i (t))\,dt = \infty, \] \[ \tau_i : [t_0, \infty ) \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \] is piecewise continuous, \[ \tau_i(t) \leq t \text{ for } t \geq t_0, \sup_{t\geq t_0} \{t - \tau_i(t)\} \leq q < \infty, \] for \(0 \leq i \leq m\), \(\phi : [t_0 - q, t_0]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is continuous and bounded, \(g_i : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is continuous such that for \(x>0, g_i (-x) < g_i (0) = 0< g_i (x), 0 \leq m\), and there is a strictly monotone increasing function \(f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) such that \[ f(0)=0,0 < \frac {g_i (x)} {f (x)} \leq 1,x \neq 0,0 \leq i \leq m \] and if \(f (x) \neq x, \lim_{x\rightarrow-\infty} f (x) {\text{ or}} \lim_{x\rightarrow\infty} f (x)\) is finite. Explicit conditions are provided for a wide class of \(f\) which includes the case \(f (x) = e^x -1\). These results are applied to nonautonomous logistic equations with delays.