Exponential stability for abstract linear autonomous functional differential equations with infinite delay.
The classical Cayley-Hamilton theorem is extended to continuous-time linear systems with delays. The matrices of the system with delays satisfy algebraic matrix equations with coefficients of the characteristic polynomial.
Using extrapolation spaces introduced by Da Prato-Grisvard and Nagel we prove a non-autonomous perturbation theorem for Hille-Yosida operators. The abstract result is applied to non-autonomous retarded partial differential equations.
We study, in Carathéodory assumptions, existence, continuation and continuous dependence of extremal solutions for an abstract and rather general class of hereditary differential equations. By some examples we prove that, unlike the nonfunctional case, solved Cauchy problems for hereditary differential equations may not have local extremal solutions.