Stability of positive steady-state solutions to a time-delayed system with some applications (Q2169016)

The authors consider a nonlinear retarded system given by \[ y'(t)=a(t)F(y(t),~y(t- \tau)),\quad t \geq 0 \] where \(\tau>0\) is a constant with a positive continuous initial value as \[ y(t)= \phi(t),\quad -\tau \leq t \leq 0, \] where \( \phi(t)>0\) and \( \phi(t)\) is a continuous function on \([- \tau , ~0].\) \par The authors gave interesting real world mathematical models than can be represented by these equations. They obtain sufficient conditions for the unique positive equilibrium to be globally stable in two theorems. \par They apply the obtained results to mathematical models for \begin{itemize} \item[(1)] blood cell production \item[(2)] epidemiological models \item[(3)] tumor growth. \end{itemize}