Delay Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems: Proceedings of a Conference in honor of Kenneth Cooke held in Claremont, California, Jan. 13–16, 1990

Kenneth L. Cooke, Joseph Wiener (auth.), Stavros Busenberg, Mario Martelli (eds.)3540541209, 9783540541202, 0387541209

The meeting explored current directions of research in delay differential equations and related dynamical systems and celebrated the contributions of Kenneth Cooke to this field on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volume contains three survey papers reviewing three areas of current research and seventeen research contributions. The research articles deal with qualitative properties of solutions of delay differential equations and with bifurcation problems for such equations and other dynamical systems. A companion volume in the biomathematics series (LN in Biomathematics, Vol. 22) contains contributions on recent trends in population and mathematical biology.

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Table of contents :
A survey of differential equations with piecewise continuous arguments….Pages 1-15
Dynamics and delays….Pages 16-30
A brief survey of persistence in dynamical systems….Pages 31-40
Periodic orbits of planar polynomial Liénard systems with a small parameter….Pages 41-52
Hopf bifurcation in quasilinear reaction-diffusion systems….Pages 53-63
Monotone semi-flows which have a monotone first integral….Pages 64-75
The coincidence degree of some functional differential operators in spaces of periodic functions and related continuation theorems….Pages 76-87
On the stability of discrete equations and ordinary differential equations….Pages 88-97
Systems of set-valued equations in Banach spaces….Pages 98-109
Abstract volterra equations and weak topologies….Pages 110-115
Semigroups and renewal equations on dual Banach spaces with applications to population dynamics….Pages 116-129
Estimates for spatio-temporally dependent reaction diffusion systems….Pages 130-146
The mountain circle theorem….Pages 147-160
Extensions of an algorithm for the analysis of nongeneric Hopf bifurcations, with applications to delay-difference equations….Pages 161-175
The forced spherical pendulum does have forced oscillations….Pages 176-182
Radial bounds for Schrödinger operators in euclidean domains….Pages 183-190
Jumping nonlinearity for 2nd order ODE with positive forcing….Pages 191-203
Moment conditions for a Volterra integral equation in a Banach space….Pages 204-209
Asymptotic behaviors of solutions of a system of linear ordinary differential equations as t →∞….Pages 210-217
Implicit differential equations which are not solvable for the highest derivative….Pages 218-224
A stability analysis for a class of differential-delay equations having time-varying delay….Pages 225-242
On an interval map associated with a delay logistic equation with discontinuous delays….Pages 243-249