A new direct method is presented which reduces a given high-order representation of a control system with delays to a first-order form that is encountered in the study of neutral delay-differential systems. Using the polynomial system description (PMD) setting due to Rosenbrock, it is shown that the transformation connecting the original PMD with the first-order form is Fuhrmann's strict system equivalence. This type of system equivalence leaves the transfer function and other relevant structural...

In this paper, we prove existence and controllability results for first and second order semilinear neutral functional differential inclusions with finite or infinite delay in Banach spaces, with nonlocal conditions. Our theory makes use of analytic semigroups and fractional powers of closed operators, integrated semigroups and cosine families.

Our paper deals with the following nonlinear neutral differential equation with variable delay $$\frac{d}{dt}D{u}_t\left(t\right)=p\left(t\right)-a\left(t\right)u\left(t\right)-a\left(t\right)g\left(u(t-\tau \left(t\right))\right)-h(u\left(t\right),u(t-\tau \left(t\right))).$$ By using Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem we obtain the existence of periodic solution and by contraction mapping principle we obtain the uniqueness. A sufficient condition is established for the positivity of the above equation. Stability results of this equation are analyzed. Our results extend and complement some results obtained in the work [Yuan, Y., Guo, Z.: On the existence and stability of...

Consider the forced higher-order nonlinear neutral functional differential equation $$\frac{{\mathrm{d}}^n}{\mathrm{d}{t}^n}[x\left(t\right)+C\left(t\right)x(t-\tau )]+\sum _{i=1}^m{Q}_i\left(t\right)f_i\left(x(t-{\sigma }_i)\right)=g\left(t\right),t\ge t_0,$$ where $n,m\ge 1$ are integers, $\tau ,{\sigma }_i\in {ℝ}^{+}=[0,\infty )$, $C,Q_i,g\in C([t_0,\infty ),ℝ)$, $f_i\in C(ℝ,ℝ)$, $(i=1,2,\cdots ,m)$. Some sufficient conditions for the existence of a nonoscillatory solution of above equation are obtained for general $Q_i\left(t\right)$$(i=1...$

The fixed point theorem of Krasnoselskii and the concept of large contractions are employed to show the existence of a periodic solution of a nonlinear integro-differential equation with variable delay $$x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=-{\int }_{t-\tau \left(t\right)}^{t}a(t,s)g\left(x\left(s\right)\right)ds+\frac{d}{dt}Q(t,x(t-\tau \left(t\right)))+G(t,x\left(t\right),x(t-\tau \left(t\right))).$$ We transform this equation and then invert it to obtain a sum of two mappings one of which is completely continuous and the other is a large contraction. We choose suitable conditions for $\tau$, $g$, $a$, $Q$ and $G$ to show that this sum of mappings fits into the framework of a modification of Krasnoselskii’s...

In this paper, we study the existence of oscillatory and nonoscillatory solutions of neutral differential equations of the form $x\left(t\right)-cx(t-r)$’$P\left(t\right)x(t-\theta )-Q\left(t\right)x(t-\delta )$=0 where $c>0$, $r>0$, $\theta >\delta \ge 0$ are constants, and $P$, $Q\in C({ℝ}^{+},{ℝ}^{+})$. We obtain some sufficient and some necessary conditions for the existence of bounded and unbounded positive solutions, as well as some sufficient conditions for the existence of bounded and unbounded oscillatory solutions.

For a certain class of functional differential equations with perturbations conditions are given such that there exist solutions which converge to solutions of the equations without perturbation.

We use a modification of Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem due to Burton (see [Liapunov functionals, fixed points and stability by Krasnoselskii’s theorem, Nonlinear Stud. 9 (2002), 181–190], Theorem 3) to show that the totally nonlinear neutral differential equation with variable delay $$x^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)=-a\left(t\right)h\left(x\left(t\right)\right)+c\left(t\right)x^{\text{'}}(t-g\left(t\right))Q^{\text{'}}\left(x(t-g\left(t\right))\right)+G(t,x\left(t\right),x(t-g\left(t\right))),$$ has a periodic solution. We invert this equation to construct a fixed point mapping expressed as a sum of two mappings such that one is compact and the other is a large contraction. We show that the mapping fits...

Let $𝕋$ be a periodic time scale. The purpose of this paper is to use a modification of Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem due to Burton to prove the existence of periodic solutions on time scale of the nonlinear dynamic equation with variable delay $x^{▵}\left(t\right)=-a\left(t\right)h\left(x^{\sigma }\left(t\right)\right)+c\left(t\right)x^{\widetilde{▵}}\left(t-r\left(t\right)\right)+G\left(t,x\left(t\right),x\left(t-r\left(t\right)\right)\right)$, $t\in 𝕋$, where $f^{▵}$ is the $▵$-derivative on $𝕋$ and $f^{\widetilde{▵}}$ is the $▵$-derivative on $(id-r)\left(𝕋\right)$. We invert the given equation to obtain an equivalent integral equation from which we define a fixed point mapping written as a sum of a large contraction and a compact map. We show...