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We consider a family of scalar delay differential equations $x'(t)=f(t,x_t)$, with a nonlinearity $f$ satisfying a negative feedback condition combined with a boundedness condition. We present a global stability criterion for this family,…
Simplicity of the $37/24$-global stability criterion announced by E.M. Wright in 1955 and rigorously proved by B. B\'{a}nhelyi et al in 2014 for the delayed logistic equation raised the question of its possible extension for other…
We present a short proof of the following natural extension of the famous Wright's 3/2-stability theorem: the conditions $\tau \leq 3/2, \ c \geq 2$ imply the presence of the positive traveling fronts (not necessarily monotone) $u =…
For equations $ x'(t) = -x(t) + \zeta f(x(t-h)), x \in \R, f'(0)= -1, \zeta > 0,$ with $C^3$-nonlinearity $f$ which has negative Schwarzian derivative and satisfies $xf(x) < 0$ for $x\not=0$, we prove convergence of all solutions to zero…
We gain further insight into the use of the Schwarzian derivative to obtain new results for a family of functional differential equations including the famous Wright's equation and the Mackey-Glass type delay differential equations. We…
We consider scalar delay differential equations $x'(t) = -\delta x(t) + f(t,x_t) (*)$ with nonlinear f satisfying a sort of negative feedback condition combined with a boundedness condition. The well known Mackey-Glass type equations,…
Wright's delay differential equation is one of the prime examples of a fully nonlinear equation without an explicit solution and whose dynamics can be understood by analytic means. In this paper, we introduce stochastic perturbations by…
We present new explicit exponential stability conditions for the linear scalar neutral equation with two variable coefficients and delays $$ (x(t)-a(t)x(g(t)))'=-b(t)x(h(t)), $$ where $|a(t)|<1$, $b(t)\geq 0$, $h(t)\leq t$, $g(t)\leq t$, in…
An old conjecture in delay equations states that Wright's equation \[ y'(t)= - \alpha y(t-1) [ 1+y(t)], \alpha \in \mathbb{R} \] has a unique slowly oscillating periodic solution (SOPS) for every parameter value $\alpha>\pi/2$. We…
In this paper we present some non existence results concerning the stable solutions to the equation $$\operatorname{div}(w(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=g(x)f(u)\;\;\mbox{in}\;\;\mathbb{R}^N;\;\;p\geq 2$$ when $f(u)$ is either…
For the delay differential equations $$ \ddot{x}(t) +a(t)\dot{x}(g(t))+b(t)x(h(t))=0, g(t)\leq t, h(t)\leq t, $$ and $$ \ddot{x}(t) +a(t)\dot{x}(t)+b(t)x(t)+a_1(t)\dot{x}(g(t))+b_1(t)x(h(t))=0 $$ explicit exponential stability conditions…
We obtain conditions for the differentiability of weak solutions for a second-order uniformly elliptic equation in divergence form with a homogeneous co-normal boundary condition. The modulus of continuity for the coefficients is assumed to…
We present the simplest criterion that determines the direction of the Hopf bifurcations of the delay differential equation $x'(t)=-\mu f(x(t-1))$, as the parameter $\mu$ passes through the critical values $\mu_k$. We give a complete…
We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions to the model equation $$-\Delta_p u=\sigma \, u^q \quad \text{on} \, \, \, \R^n,$$ in the case $0<q<p-1$, where $\sigma\ge 0$ is an arbitrary locally integrable…
This paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of the solution of a weakly damped second order linear differential equation that is subjected to outside forcing, for which solutions of the unforced equation are…
For ordinary differential equations and functional differential equations the following result is well known. Suppose any solution is bounded on the half-line for each bounded on the half-line right-hand side. Then under certain conditions…
This paper investigates the stability properties of a nonlinear fractional differential equation with two discrete delays and a delay-dependent coefficient. Such equations arise in various biological and control systems where temporal…
We consider a class of scalar delay differential equations with impulses and satisfying an Yorke-type condition, for which some criteria for the global stability of the zero solution are established. Here, the usual requirements about the…
This paper concerns the stability of analytical and numerical solutions of nonlinear stochastic delay differential equations (SDDEs). We derive sufficient conditions for the stability, contractivity and asymptotic contractivity in mean…
In the present paper we prove existence results for solutions to nonlinear elliptic Neumann problems whose prototype is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p} u -\text{div} (c(x)|u|^{p-2}u)) =f & \text{in}\ \Omega, \\ \left( |\nabla…