Existence of almost periodic solutions of neutral functional differential equations via the Lyapunov-Razumikhin function (Q1379505)

The author investigates the existence, uniqueness and stability of almost-periodic solutions of neutral functional-differential equations of the form \[ {d\over dt}D(t)x_t=f(t,x_t)\tag{1} \] (and more general). Here \(f:\mathbb{R}\times C\to \mathbb{R}^n\) is continuous and local Lipschitzian in the second argument, \(C=C([-r,0],\mathbb{R}^n)\), \(x_t(\theta)=x(t+\theta)\), \(\theta\in[-r,0]\), and \(D(t)\) is defined by \[ D(t)\phi=\phi(0)-\int_{-r}^0[d_\theta\mu(t,\theta)]\phi(\theta), \quad \phi\in C . \] The following theorem gives an impression of the results: Theorem. Suppose that \(D(t)\) is uniformly stable with respect to \(C((-\infty,+\infty),\mathbb{R}^n)\) and equation (1) has a solution \(\xi(t)\), \(|\xi_t|\leq H\), \(t\geq 0\). If \(\xi(t)\) is asymptotically almost-periodic then equation (1) has an almost-periodic solution. For proving this theorem the relation between two solutions has to be studied and for this purpose the product system is considered \[ {d\over dt}D(t)x_t=f(t,x_t),\quad {d\over dt}D(t)y_t=f(t,y_t). \] For this system Lyapunov-Razumikhin functionals \(V:\mathbb{R}^+\times B\times B\to \mathbb{R}^+\) are applied (\(B\) is some ball in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) centered at the origin).