Asymptotic integration of delay differential systems (Q5916444)

The authors consider the asymptotic integration of the delay differential equation (1) \(dx/dt=\Lambda x(t)+L(t,x_ t),\) \(t\geq t_ 0\) where \(x(t)\in R^ n\), \(x_ t\) denotes the function \(x_ t(s)=x(t+s)\), - \(\tau\leq s\leq 0\); \(\Lambda =diag(\lambda_ 1,...,\lambda_ n)\), \(\lambda_ i\neq \lambda_ j\) if \(i\neq j\); for each t, L(t,\(\cdot)\) is linear continuous, L(t,\(\cdot): C([-\tau,0],R^ n)\to R^ n\) and \(t\mapsto L(t,\cdot)\) is continuous, \(\| L(t,\cdot)\| \in L^ 2(t_ 0,\infty)\). Originally, the problem of asymptotic integration was proposed and studied in the works of P. Hartman and A. Wintner in the fifties of this century for ODE of the form \((2)\quad dx/dt=(\Lambda +A(t))x(t),\) \(A\in L^ 2\). J. R. Haddock and R. Sacker tried to extend the results of Hartman, Wintner and others from the case (2) to \((3)\quad dx/dt=(\Lambda +A(t))x(t)+B(t)x(t-\tau),\) \(A,B\in L^ 2\). In the present paper the authors prove a result for (1) close to an asymptotic formula for solutions of (3) conjectured by Haddock and Sacker. The study method of the authors is similar to that used in the investigation of partial stability.