Generalized Wright conjecture for equations with negative Schwarzian

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Consider the Wright delay differential equation

x′(t)=−x(t)+f(x(t−1)).x'(t)=-x(t)+f(x(t-1)).

Assume that all conditions (H) on ff are satisfied. Generalized Wright conjecture. If −f′(0)<π/2-f'(0)<\pi/2, then

lim⁡t→+∞x(t)=0\lim\limits_{t\to +\infty}x(t)=0

for every solution x(t)x(t). This generalizes Wright's conjecture in the setting of nonlinearities with negative Schwarzian derivative; the source states that the original Wright conjecture remains open, and proposes this formulation based on one-dimensional dynamics results for maps with negative Schwarzian derivative.

References

Primary source

E. Liz, M. Pinto, G. Robledo, V. Tkachenko and S. Trofimchuk, “Wright type delay differential equations with negative Schwarzian”, arXiv:math/0111285 (2002).

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