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Applied Mathematics

University of Dayton

2005

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Stability Properties Of Linear Volterra Integrodifferential Equations With Nonlinear Perturbation, Muhammad Islam, Youssef Raffoul Jan 2005

Stability Properties Of Linear Volterra Integrodifferential Equations With Nonlinear Perturbation, Muhammad Islam, Youssef Raffoul

Mathematics Faculty Publications

A Lyapunov functional is employed to obtain conditions that guarantee stability, uniform stability and uniform asymptotic stability of the zero solution of a scalar linear Volterra integrodifferential equation with nonlinear perturbation.


Boundedness And Stability In Nonlinear Delay Difference Equations Employing Fixed Point Theory, Muhammad Islam, Ernest Yankson Jan 2005

Boundedness And Stability In Nonlinear Delay Difference Equations Employing Fixed Point Theory, Muhammad Islam, Ernest Yankson

Mathematics Faculty Publications

In this paper we study stability and boundedness of the nonlinear difference equation

x(t+1)=a(t)x(t)+c(t)Δx(t−g(t))+q(x(t),x(t−g(t))).


In particular we study equi-boundedness of solutions and the stability of the zero solution of this equation. Fixed point theorems are used in the analysis.