Battle-outcome prediction for an extended system of Lanchester-type differential equations

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(84)90134-3MaRDI QIDQ1073237zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James G. Taylor

Publication date 1984

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247X(84)90134-3

zbMATH Keywords

battle-termination conditionsfirst order differential equationLanchester-type differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Qualitative theory for ordinary differential equations (34C99) Differential games (aspects of game theory) (91A23)

Review text

Battle-outcome-prediction conditions are given for an extended system of Lanchester-type differential equations for two different types of battle- termination conditions: (a) fixed-force-level-breakpoint battles, and (b) fixed-force-ratio-breakpoint battles. Necessary and sufficient conditions for predicting battle outcome are given in the former case for a fight to the finish, while sufficient conditions are given in the latter case. The former results are equivalent to those for the problem of classical analysis of determining (explicitly as a function of the initial conditions) the occurrence of a zero point for the solution to this extended system, although such results as given here have not appeared previously for nonoscillatory (in the strict sense) solutions.

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