Asymptotic behavior of some linear differential systems

DOI10.1006/JDEQ.1997.3382MaRDI QIDQ1265076zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tzuu-Shuh Chiang, Yunshyong Chow

Publication date 12 April 1999

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jdeq.1997.3382

asymptotic behaviour cycle method differential systems linear

Linear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A30) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10)

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In the introduction, the authors consider a chasing game in \(\mathbb{R}\) among \(b\) particles whose trajectories are generated by the differential equations \[ F_i'(t)= \sum_{j\neq i} q_{ij}(t)(F_j(t)- F_i(t)) \] for \(i\in S= \{1,2,\dots,b\}\) where \(F_i(t)\) is the position of the particle \(i\) at time \(t\) and \(q_{ij}(t)\), which determines the instantaneous rate: the particle \(i\) is attracted toward particle \(j\), is \[ q_{ij}(t)= p_{ij} \lambda(t)^{U(i,j)}\quad\text{for }i\neq j. \] The rate function \(\lambda(t)> 0\) with \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\lambda(t)= 0\), \(U(i,j)\) is the ``cost function indicating of difficulty from \(i\) to \(j\) and the nonnegative number \(p_{ij}\) for \(i\neq j\) reflect the neighborhood structure of the particles. The authors suppose that the matrix \(P= (p_{ij})_{b\times b}\) is irreducible. A sufficient condition on \(\lambda(t)\) is given for all \(F_i(t)\) converging to a common finite limit (Theorem 1.1). In Section 2 some preliminary results are presented. Section 3 treats cycles of rank one and Section 4 deals with cycles of higher rank and a proof of Theorem 1.1. In the last part, some questions are presented for further study, besides proving the cycle structures for two typical ``cost functions.

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