Nonpreservation of asymptotic properties of solutions of singular linear differential systems under small perturbations (Q2567807)

The paper deals with the linear system \[ \varepsilon\dot x=A(t)x,\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^n,\quad t\geq 0,\tag{1} \] where \(A(t)\) is a bounded continuous matrix, \(\varepsilon\) is a small positive parameter, and the perturbed system \[ \varepsilon\dot y=A(t)+Q(t)y,\quad y\in \mathbb{R}^n,\quad t\geq 0,\tag{2} \] with a piecewise continuous perturbation \(Q(t)\), \(\| Q(t)\|\leq\delta\), \(t\geq 0\). Let \(x(t,x_0,\varepsilon)\) and \(y(t,y_0,\varepsilon)\) be the solutions of the initial value problem to (1) and (2), respectively. The author presents a method to construct a two-dimensional system (1) such that for \(t\in (0,T]\) \[ \lim_{\varepsilon\to 0} x(t,x_0,\varepsilon)=0\quad \forall x_0\in \mathbb{R}, \] and to construct a perturbation \(Q(b)\) of arbitrary small norm such that for system (2), the solution \(y(t,y_0,\varepsilon)\) tends to infinity as \(\varepsilon\) tends to zero \(\forall y_0\in \mathbb{R}\) different from zero.