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Delay-induced blow-up in a planar oscillation model

Dynamical Systems 2021-06-01 v3

Abstract

In this paper we study a system of delay differential equations from the viewpoint of a finite time blow-up of the solution. We prove that the system admits a blow-up solution, no matter how small the length of the delay is. In the non-delay system every solution approaches to a stable unit circle in the plane, thus time delay induces blow-up of solutions, which we call "delay-induced blow-up" phenomenon. Furthermore, it is shown that the system has a family of infinitely many periodic solutions, while the non-delay system has only one stable limit cycle. The system studied in this paper is an example that arbitrary small delay can be responsible for a drastic change of the dynamics. We show numerical examples to illustrate our theoretical results.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07815,
  title  = {Delay-induced blow-up in a planar oscillation model},
  author = {Alexey Eremin and Emiko Ishiwata and Tetsuya Ishiwata and Yukihiko Nakata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07815},
  year   = {2021}
}
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