No label defined (Q4399147)

The authors study differential equations with piecewise constant argument of the form \[ y'(t)= A(t)y(t) B(t)y \bigl([t]\bigr) +f\biggl(t,y(t), y\bigl([t]\bigr) \biggr),\;t\in \mathbb{R},\tag{1} \] where \([\cdot]\) denotes the greatest integer function, \(A(t)\), \(B(t)\) are \(k\times k\) continuous matrices in \(t\in \mathbb{R}\) and \(f:\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^k \times \mathbb{R}^k\), is a continuous and bounded function and Lipschitzian in \(x\in\mathbb{R}^k\) and \(y\in\mathbb{R}^k\). Assuming that the linear equation \(x'(t)= A(t)x(t)\) (where \(A(t)\) is a \(k\times k\) continuous matrix in \(t\in\mathbb{R})\) has an exponential dichotomy then under some conditions on \(A(t)\), \(B(t)\) and \(f(t,x,y)\) the authors prove that there exist two nonlinear projections \(\widehat Q, \widehat P\) with range \(\widehat Q=V\), range \(\widehat P=W\), where \(V\) (respectively \(W)\) is the set of the values at \(t=0\) of the solutions to (1) which are bounded on \((-\infty,0]\) (respectively \([0,\infty))\). Moreover if \(f(t,0,0)=0\) for \(t\in\mathbb{R}\) then \(V\) (respectively \(W)\) is equal to the set of the values at \(t=0\) of the solutions to (1) which tend exponentially to zero as \(t\to-\infty\) (respectively \(t\to \infty)\).