Investigation of stability in the case of neutral linear approximation (Q726448)

The author considers a system of ordinary differential equations \[ \frac{dx}{dt}=Ax+F_2(t)x^2+F_3(t)x^3+\cdots,\eqno(1) \] where \(A\) is a constant real (\(2m\times 2m\)) matrix similar to a diagonal matrix with pure imaginary pairwise complex conjugate eigenvalues on the leading diagonal and \(F_l(t)x^l\) are homogeneous polynomials of \(x_1,\dots,x_{2m}\) of degree \(l\) whose coefficients are real periodic or almost periodic vector functions of \(t\). In the present paper, a method for the construction of the Lyapunov function for some cases of system (1) based on the technique of the theory of normal forms is proposed.