Uniqueness and stability of slowly oscillating periodic solutions of delay equations with unbounded nonlinearity (Q685819): Difference between revisions

The paper deals with uniqueness and stability problems of slowly oscillating periodic solutions of the differential delay equation (*) \(- \varepsilon \dot x(t)=\sigma x(t)+f(x(t-1))\), where \(\varepsilon>0\) and \(\sigma\geq 0\) are parameters. The main condition on \(f\) is that it decays to a negative real number at \(-\infty\) and tends to \(+\infty\) at \(+\infty\). Under some additional (rather technical) assumptions on \(f\) it is shown that if the decay rate can dominate the growth rate in a certain sense, then a unique slowly oscillating periodic solution of (*) exists. Also, by estimating the Floquet multipliers it is proved that such a periodic solution is asymptotically stable for all small values of the parameters involved.