Asymptotic and periodic boundary value problems of mixed FDEs and wave solutions of lattice differential equations (Q1355848)

The authors establish existence and approximation schemes of solutions to periodic or asymptotic boundary value problems of mixed functional differential equations of the form \[ x'(t)= f(x(t),x(t-\tau))+ \sum^m_{j=1} a_j[g(x(t+ r_j-\varepsilon\tau))+ g(x(t- r_j-\varepsilon\tau))- 2g(x(t-\varepsilon\tau))], \] where \(x\in \mathbb{R}\), \(f:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}\) and \(g: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) are continuous functions, \(\tau\geq 0\), \(\varepsilon=0\) or 1, \(a_j\) and \(r_j\), \(1\leq j\leq m\), are constants. Such equations arise from the study of traveling waves of infinitely coupled system of delay-differential equations of the type \[ u_n'(t)= f(u_n(t),u_n(t-\tau))+ \sum^m_{j=1} a_j[g(u_{n-j}(t-\varepsilon\tau))+ g(u_{n+j}(t- \varepsilon\tau))- 2g(u_n(t-\varepsilon\tau)], \] where \(n\in\mathbb{Z}\) and \(f(0,0)= f(k,k)=0\) for a constant \(k>0\). The authors use the technique of monotone iteration concepts of upper and lower solutions, \(S^1\)-degree and the equivariant bifurcation theory.