Estimates for exponential decay of solutions to one class of nonlinear systems of neutral type with periodic coefficients (Q2207537)

The author studies the exponential stability and decay rate of a class of neutral delay-differential equations \[ \dot{y}(t) = A(t) y(t) + B(t) y(t-\tau) + C(t) \dot{y}(t-\tau) + F(t, y(t), \dot{y}(t), \dot{y}(t-\tau)) \] with \(T\)-periodic coefficients \(A\), \(B\) and \(C\) and a function \(F\) which is linearly bounded with respect to its arguments (uniformly in time). They consider a (class of) Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional \(V\) and derive conditions under which it satisfies a differential inequality \[ \dot{V}(t) \leq -\gamma(t) V(t) \] for some function \(\gamma\) with a positive integral over \([0,T]\), which directly leads to a criteria for exponential stability as well as some estimate for the exponential decay rate. The selection of the parameters of the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (some time-dependent functions) is not explicitly addressed. The contribution over the previous paper in this line of study [\textit{I. I. Matveeva}, Sib. Zh. Ind. Mat. 22, No. 3, 96--103 (2019; Zbl 1438.34269); translation in J. Appl. Ind. Math. 13, No. 3, 511--518 (2019)] is specifically the introduction of the nonlinear term \(F\).