Computing stability of differential equations with bounded distributed delays (Q1413744)

The authors' abstract (slightly abbreviated): The paper deals with the stability analysis of scalar delay integro-differential equations (DIDEs). We propose a numerical scheme for computing the stability determining characteristic roots of DIDEs which involves a linear multistep method as time integration scheme and a quadrature method based on Lagrange interpolation and Gauss-Legendre quadrature rule. We derive and prove a sufficient condition for (asymptotic) stability of a DIDE with constant kernel. We compare the results with corresponding ones using Newton-Cotes formulae. Results of numerical experiments concerning the stability of DIDEs with constant and nonconstant kernel functions are presented.