Positive periodic solutions of functional differential equations with impulse on time scales (Q711539)

The authors study the existence of positive periodic solutions to the first order impulsive functional differential equation on time scales \[ x^{\Delta}(t)=A(t)x(t)+\lambda f(t, x_t),\quad t\neq \tau_k,\;t\in J_{{\mathbb T}}, \] \[ x(\tau_{k}^{+})-x(\tau_k^{-})=B_kx(\tau_k^{-}),\quad k=1, 2, \dots, l, \] where \(B_k=\text{diag}(b_k^1, b_k^2,\dots,b_k^n)\), \(\lambda>0\) is a parameter, \({\mathbb T}\) is a time scale which has the topology inherited from the standard topology on \({\mathbb R}\). For each interval \(J\) of \({\mathbb R}\), \(J_{\mathbb T} @>{\Delta}>> J\cap {\mathbb T}\). \(x(\tau_k^{+})\) and \(x(\tau_k^{-})\) stand for right and left limits of \(x(t)\) at \(t=\tau_k\) \((k=1, 2,\dots, l)\), respectively, in the sense of time scales. \(A(t)=\text{diag}(a_1(t), a_2(t), \dots, a_n(t))\), \(a_j\in C({\mathbb T}, [0, +\infty))\) is \(\omega\)-periodic, \(j=1, 2, \dots,n\). \(f(t, x_t)\) is a function defined on \({\mathbb T}\times BC_{\mathbb T}\), and \(f(t, x_t)\) is \(\omega\)-periodic, where \(BC_{\mathbb T}=\{\phi: {\mathbb T}\to {\mathbb R}^{n}\mid \phi\) is bounded and continuous\} with the norm \(\|\phi\|=\sum_{j=1}^{n}\sup_{\theta\in {\mathbb R}}|\phi^{j}(\theta)|\), \(\phi=(\phi^1, \phi^2,\dots, \phi^n)\). Under some appropriate assumptions, the authors prove that there exists \(\lambda^{*}>0\) such that the system above has at least one positive \(\omega\)-periodic solution for \(\lambda\in (0, \lambda^{*}]\) and does not have any \(\omega\)-periodic solution for \(\lambda>\lambda^{*}\).