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Limiting profiles for periodic solutions of scalar delay differential equations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2007
Abstract
Let f(·, λ) : R→R be given so that f(0, λ) = 0 and f(x, λ) = (1 + λ)x + ax2 + bx3 + o(x3) as x → 0. We characterize those small values of ε > 0 and λ ∈ R for which there are periodic solutions of periods approximately 1/k with k ∈ N of the delay equations When a = 0, these periodic solutions approach square waves if b < 0 or pulses if b > 0 as ε → 0. These results are similar to those obtained by Chow et al. and Hale and Huang, where the case of f(x, λ) = −(1 + λ)x + ax2 + bx3 + o(x3) as x → 0 is considered. However, when a ≠ 0, all these periodic solutions approach pulses as ε → 0; an interesting phenomenon that cannot happen in the case considered by Chow et al. and Hale and Huang.
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- Research Article
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 131 , Issue 4 , August 2001 , pp. 799 - 810
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2001