Existence and impulsive stability for second order retarded differential equations

  • Authors:
  • L. P. Gimenes;M. Federson

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Departamento de Matemática, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider certain impulsive second order delay differential equations and give conditions for the existence of solutions. Moreover we prove that the non-impulsive equations can be stabilized by the imposition of proper impulse controls generalizing recent results by Li and Weng. We also comment on some possible applications and give examples.