Author(s): Graef J.R. (ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics
Publisher: Dekker
Year: 1977
Language: English
Pages: 224
Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
PREFACE......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
PARTICIPANTS......Page 8
Part I: INVITED ADDRESSES......Page 11
1. ON THE LIMITING EQUATIONS AND INVARIANCE OF TIME-DEPENDENT DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS......Page 13
2. LIAPUNOV FUNCTIONS AND BOUNDEDNESS OF SOLUTIONS......Page 21
3. RECENT RESULTS ON OSCILLATION OF SOLUTIONS OF FORCED AND PERTURBED NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF EVEN ORDER......Page 27
4. CONTRACTIVE MAPPINGS AND PERIODICALLY PERTURBED NON-CONSERVATIVE SYSTEMS......Page 83
Part II: CONTRIBUTED PAPERS......Page 99
6. SEMI-COMPACTNESS IN SEMI-DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS......Page 107
7. NON-UNIFORM SAMPLING AND N-DIMENSION SAMPLING......Page 115
8. COMPLETE STABILITY AND BOUNDEDNESS OF SOLUTIONS OF A NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION OF THE FIFTH ORDER......Page 121
9. STABILITY TYPE PROPERTIES FOR SECOND ORDER NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS......Page 129
10. PRICE STABILITY IN UNIONS OF MARKETS......Page 137
11. A NONCONTINUATION CRITERION FOR AN N-TH ORDER EQUATION WITH A RETARDED ARGUMENT......Page 147
12. NEGATIVE ESCAPE TIME FOR SEMIDYNAMICAL SYSTEMS......Page 153
13. ON THE UNIFORM ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF THE LINEAR NONAUTONOMOUS EQUATION x = -P(t)x WITH SYMMETRIC POSITIVE SEMI-DEFINITE MATRIX P(t)......Page 159
14. SMOOTHING CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ON MANIFOLDS......Page 169
15. GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF SOME AUTONOMOUS THIRD ORDER SYSTEMS......Page 177
16. A REPRESENTATION FOR INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATORS FOR HEREDITARY SYSTEMS......Page 187
17. STABILITY OF PASSIVE AMCD-SPACECRAFT EQUATIONS OF MOTION: A FUTURE GENERATION SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM......Page 193
18. THE IMPLICIT FUNCTION THEOREM AND A RANDOM INTEGRAL EQUATION......Page 211
19. ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY IN THE a-NORM FOR AN ABSTRACT NONLINEAR VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATION......Page 217
INDEX......Page 223
