By using the theory of strongly continuous cosine families and the properties of completely continuous maps, we study the existence of mild, strong, classical and asymptotically almost periodic solutions for a functional second order abstract Cauchy problem with nonlocal conditions.

We consider a simple model for the immune system in which virus are able to undergo mutations and are in competition with leukocytes. These mutations are related to several other concepts which have been proposed in the literature like those of shape or of virulence – a continuous notion. For a given species, the system admits a globally attractive critical point. We prove that mutations do not affect this picture for small perturbations and under strong structural assumptions. Based on numerical...

We consider a simple model for the immune system in which virus are able to undergo mutations and are in competition with leukocytes. These mutations are related to several other concepts which have been proposed in the literature like those of shape or of virulence – a continuous notion. For a given species, the system admits a globally attractive critical point. We prove that mutations do not affect this picture for small perturbations and under strong structural assumptions. Based on numerical...

We consider boundary value problems for nonlinear $2m$th-order eigenvalue problem $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {(-1)}^m{u}^{\left(2m\right)}\left(t\right)& =\lambda a\left(t\right)f\left(u\right(t\left)\right),0<t<1,\hfill \\ \hfill u^{\left(2i\right)}\left(0\right)& =u^{\left(2i\right)}\left(1\right)=0,i=0,1,2,\cdots ,m-1.\hfill \end{array}$$ where $a\in C\left(\right[0,1],[0,\infty \left)\right)$ and $a\left(t_0\right)>0$ for some $t_0\in [0,1]$, $f\in C\left(\right[0,\infty ),[0,\infty \left)\right)$ and $f\left(s\right)>0$ for $s>0$, and $f_0=\infty$, where $f_0={lim}_{s\to 0^{+}}f\left(s\right)/s$. We investigate the global structure of positive solutions by using Rabinowitz’s global bifurcation theorem.

This paper is concerned with integral control of systems with hysteresis. Using an input-output approach, it is shown that application of integral control to the series interconnection of either (a) a hysteretic input nonlinearity, an L2-stable, time-invariant linear system and a non-decreasing globally Lipschitz static output nonlinearity, or (b) an L2-stable, time-invariant linear system and a hysteretic output nonlinearity, guarantees, under certain assumptions, tracking of constant reference...

We investigate the structure of the set of solutions of the Cauchy problem x’ = f(t,x), x(0) = x₀ in Banach spaces. If f satisfies a compactness condition expressed in terms of measures of weak noncompactness, and f is Pettis-integrable, then the set of pseudo-solutions of this problem is a continuum in $C_w(I,E)$, the space of all continuous functions from I to E endowed with the weak topology. Under some additional assumptions these solutions are, in fact, weak solutions or strong Carathéodory solutions,...

The nonlocal boundary value problems for linear and nonlinear degenerate abstract differential equations of arbitrary order are studied. The equations have the variable coefficients and small parameters in principal part. The separability properties for linear problem, sharp coercive estimates for resolvent, discreetness of spectrum and completeness of root elements of the corresponding differential operator are obtained. Moreover, optimal regularity properties for nonlinear problem is established....