Asymptotic stability of continuum sets of periodic solutions to systems with hysteresis (Q2488798)

The authors consider the system \[ \dot z= f(t,z,0),\quad z\in \mathbb R^d, \tag{1} \] where dot denotes differentiation with respect to the time \(t\), the function \(f(\cdot,\cdot,\cdot)\) is continuous and \(f(t,z,\xi)=f(t+T,z,\xi)\) for all \(t\in \mathbb R_+\), \(\xi \in\mathbb R^\ell\) with \(\mathbb R_+=[0,\infty)\). They assume that (1) has a \(T\)-periodic solution \(z_*\) which is locally exponentially stable. Where the oscillation of an appropriate projection of this periodic solution is smaller than some threshold number defined by the hysteresis nonlinearity, it is shown that for each sufficiently small \(\varepsilon\), the perturbed system has a continuum of periodic solutions in a small neighborhood of \(z_*\). The main result here is a theorem on the stability of this continuum.