By using Mawhin’s continuation theorem, the existence of even solutions with minimum positive period for a class of higher order nonlinear Duffing differential equations is studied.
In this paper, a distributed optimal consensus problem is investigated to achieve the optimization of the sum of local cost function for a group of agents in the Euler-Lagrangian (EL) system form. We consider that the local cost function of each agent is only known by itself and cannot be shared with others, which brings challenges in this distributed optimization problem. A novel gradient-based distributed continuous-time algorithm with the parameters of EL system is proposed, which takes the distributed...
The work characterizes when is the equation eventually disconjugate for every value of and gives an explicit necessary and sufficient integral criterion for it. For suitable integers , the eventually disconjugate (and disfocal) equation has 2-dimensional subspaces of solutions such that , , , . We characterize the “smallest” of such solutions and conjecture the shape of the “largest” one. Examples demonstrate that the estimates are sharp.
Several recent oscillation criteria are obtained for nonlinear delay impulsive differential equations by relating them to linear delay impulsive differential equations or inequalities, and then comparison and oscillation criteria for the latter are applied. However, not all nonlinear delay impulsive differential equations can be directly related to linear delay impulsive differential equations or inequalities. Moreover, standard oscillation criteria for linear equations cannot be applied directly...
We consider evolution differential equations in Fréchet spaces with unconditional Schauder basis, and construct a version of the majorant functions method to obtain existence theorems for Cauchy problems. Applications to PDE are also considered.
We consider some discrete and continuous dynamics in a Banach space involving a non expansive operator J and a corresponding family of strictly contracting operators Φ (λ, x): = λ J(x) for λ ∈ ] 0,1] . Our motivation comes from the study of two-player zero-sum repeated games, where the value of the n-stage game (resp. the value of the λ-discounted game) satisfies the relation vn = Φ(, ) (resp. = Φ(λ, )) where J is the Shapley operator of the game. We study the evolution equation u'(t) =...
Similarly to quasidifferential equations of Panasyuk, the so-called mutational equations of Aubin provide a generalization of ordinary differential equations to locally compact metric spaces. Here we present their extension to a nonempty set with a possibly nonsymmetric distance. In spite of lacking any linear structures, a distribution-like approach leads to so-called right-hand forward solutions. These extensions are mainly motivated by compact subsets of the Euclidean space...
The purpose of this paper is to give theorems on continuity and differentiability with respect to (h,t) of the solution of the initial value problem du/dt = A(h,t)u + f(h,t), u(0) = u₀(h) with parameter in the “hyperbolic” case.
We study a Cauchy problem for non-convex valued evolution inclusions in non separable Banach spaces under Filippov type assumptions. We establish existence and relaxation theorems.
In this paper we study evolution inclusions generated by time dependent convex subdifferentials, with the orientor field depending on a parameter. Under reasonable hypotheses on the data, we show that the solution set is both Vietoris and Hausdorff metric continuous in . Using these results, we study the variational stability of a class of nonlinear parabolic optimal control problems.
We recall the definition of Minimizing Movements, suggested by E. De Giorgi, and we consider some applications to evolution problems. With regards to ordinary differential equations, we prove in particular a generalization of maximal slope curves theory to arbitrary metric spaces. On the other hand we present a unifying framework in which some recent conjectures about partial differential equations can be treated and solved. At the end we consider some open problems.