Inertial and slow manifolds for delay equations with small delays. (Q1811795)

The author studies delay equations with small delays and shows that the finite-dimensional manifold of special solutions is smooth, which attracts, exponentially fast, all solutions in the infinite-dimensional phase space of the RFDE, so that the special solutions form an inertial manifold in the phase space of the RFDE and the long-term dynamics of the RFDE is determined by (smooth) ordinary differential equations on the inertial manifold. The author also shows that the expansion in small delay can be used to obtain the dynamical system on the inertial manifold. This justifies the ``post-Newtonian'' approximation for delay equations. This paper is related to Ryabov's and Driver's works.