This work is devoted to the study of a Cauchy problem for a certain family of q-difference-differential equations having Fuchsian and irregular singularities. For given formal initial conditions, we first prove the existence of a unique formal power series X̂(t,z) solving the problem. Under appropriate conditions, q-Borel and q-Laplace techniques (firstly developed by J.-P. Ramis and C. Zhang) help us in order to construct actual holomorphic solutions of the Cauchy problem whose q-asymptotic expansion...

In this paper, two robust consensus problems are considered for a multi-agent system with various disturbances. To achieve the robust consensus, two distributed control schemes for each agent, described by a second-order differential equation, are proposed. With the help of graph theory, the robust consensus stability of the multi-agent system with communication delays is obtained for both fixed and switching interconnection topologies. The results show the leaderless consensus can be achieved with...

This paper focuses on the problem of uniform asymptotic stability of a class of linear neutral systems including some constant delays and time-varying cone-bounded nonlinearities. Sufficient stability conditions are derived by taking into account the weighting factors describing the nonlinearities. The proposed results are applied to the stability analysis of a class of lossless transmission line models.

We investigate the existence of solutions on a compact interval to second order boundary value problems for a class of functional differential inclusions in Banach spaces. We rely on a fixed point theorem for condensing maps due to Martelli.

The aim of our paper is to study oscillatory and asymptotic properties of solutions of nonlinear differential equations of the third order with deviating argument. In particular, we prove a comparison theorem for properties A and B as well as a comparison result on property A between nonlinear equations with and without deviating arguments. Our assumptions on nonlinearity f are related to its behavior only in a neighbourhood of zero and/or of infinity.

Consider boundary value problems for a functional differential equation $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{x}^{\left(n\right)}\left(t\right)=\left(T^{+}x\right)\left(t\right)-\left(T^{-}x\right)\left(t\right)+f\left(t\right),\hfill & t\in [a,b],\hfill \\ lx=c,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $T^{+},T^{-}:𝐂[a,b]\to 𝐋[a,b]$ are positive linear operators; $l:{\mathrm{𝐀𝐂}}^{n-1}[a,b]\to {ℝ}^n$ is a linear bounded vector-functional, $f\in 𝐋[a,b]$, $c\in {ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$. Let the solvability set be the set of all points $({𝒯}^{+},{𝒯}^{-})\in {ℝ}_2^{+}$ such that for all operators $T^{+}$, $T^{-}$ with $\parallel T^{\pm }{\parallel }_{𝐂\to 𝐋}={𝒯}^{\pm }$ the problems have a unique solution for every $f$ and $c$. A method of finding the solvability sets are proposed. Some new properties of these sets are obtained in various cases. We continue the investigations of the solvability sets started in R. Hakl,...