Robustness of exponential dissipation with respect to small time delay (Q2015405)

Summary: We investigate robustness of exponential dissipation for the following general nonlinear evolutionary equation with small time delay: \(\partial_t u+Au=f(u(t),u(t-\tau))\). We firstly obtain a converse Lyapunov theorem. With the help of it, we establish an important result on robustness of exponential dissipation to small time delay assuming that the nonlinearity is globally Lipschitz.