Basic theory for linear delay equations (Q4831233)

For dynamical systems governed by feedback laws, time delays arise naturally in the feedback loop to represent effects due to communication, transmission, transportation or inertial effects. The introduction of time delays in a system of differential equations results in an infinite-dimensional state space. The solution operator becomes a nonselfadjoint operator acting on a Banach space of segments of functions. The author discusses the state space approach, the solution operator and its spectral properties for differential delay equations. As an application, he presents strong convergence results for series expansions of solutions and constructs examples of solutions of delay equations that decay faster than any exponential. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1051.34002].