Stability and oscillations of numerical solutions for differential equations with piecewise continuous arguments of alternately advanced and retarded type (Q609248)

The authors study a differential equation with alternately argument of the form \[ x'(t) = a x(t) + b x( [t+1/2]), \quad t>0 \] \[ x (0) = x_{0}, \] where \( a,b,x_{0}\) are real constants and [.] denotes the greatest integer function. Using the weighted difference method to solve this problem, conditions of stability and oscillations (for analytical and numerical solutions ) are presented in dependence of coefficients \(a , b \).