Global Hopf bifurcation of differential equations with threshold type state-dependent delay (Q2249245)

The paper is concerned with global Hopf bifurcation theory for differential equations with state-dependent delay. The authors investigate a two-degree-of-freedom mechanical model of turning processes. They show that extreme points of each vibration component of the non-constant periodic solutions can be embedded into a manifold with explicit algebraic expression and establish upper and lower bounds of the amplitudes solutions. Sufficient conditions for the non-existence of non-constant periodic solutions are given. The main approach of the paper is as follows: local and global Hopf bifurcation theories are developed and the underlying model is transformed into a system with both constant and distributed delays for the application of the Hopf bifurcation theory.