Boundary Value Problems for Delay Differential Systems

Abstract

Conditions are derived of the existence of solutions of linear Fredholm's boundary-value problems for systems of ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients and a single delay, assuming that these solutions satisfy the initial and boundary conditions. Utilizing a delayed matrix exponential and a method of pseudoinverse by Moore-Penrose matrices led to an explicit and analytical form of a criterion for the existence of solutions in a relevant space and, moreover, to the construction of a family of linearly independent solutions of such problems in a general case with the number of boundary conditions (defined by a linear vector functional) not coinciding with the number of unknowns of a differential system with a single delay. As an example of application of the results derived, the problem of bifurcation of solutions of boundary-value problems for systems of ordinary differential equations with a small parameter and with a finite number of measurable delays of argument is considered.