Stability of solutions to differential equations with several variable delays. III (Q2439385)

It is considered the problem of finding necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability of some equations belonging to the class defined by \[ \dot{x}(t)=a_0x(t)-\sum_{k=1}^n a_kx(t-r_k(t)),\quad t \geq 0. \] The results are expressed in the space of the parameters and are deduced using the model problem \[ \dot{p}(t)=- \alpha p(t-1),\quad t \geq 0 \] which is used like some kind of paradigm.