On the global attractor of delay differential equations with unimodal feedback (Q833275)

For delay equations of the type \[ \dot x(t) = -\mu x(t) + f(x(t-\tau)), \] the method of describing invariant sets for the semiflow by invariant intervals for the map \(g := \mu^{-1} f\) (it goes back to a paper by Ivanov and Sharkovsky) is skillfully employed. New results which work under less restrictive assumptions on smallness of the delay \( \tau\) are proved. In examples like Nicholson's blowflies equation or the Mackey-Glass equation, it is possible to prove that the attractor is contained in a monotonicity interval of \(f\), so that the results on delayed monotone feedback apply.