Variational inequalities \[ U(t) \in K, (\dot{U}(t)-B_\lambda U(t) - G(\lambda ,U(t)),\ Z - U(t))\ge 0\ \text{for all} \ Z\in \ K, \text{a.a.} \ t\in [0,T) \] are studied, where $K$ is a closed convex cone in $\mathbb{R}^\kappa $, $\kappa \ge 3$, $B_\lambda $ is a $\kappa \times \kappa $ matrix, $G$ is a small perturbation, $\lambda $ a real parameter. The assumptions guaranteeing a Hopf bifurcation at some $\lambda _0$ for the corresponding equation are considered and it is proved that then, in some situations, also a bifurcation of periodic solutions to our inequality occurs at some $\lambda _I \ne \lambda _0$. Bifurcating solutions are obtained by the limiting process along branches of solutions to penalty problems starting at $\lambda _0$ constructed on the basis of the Alexander-Yorke theorem as global bifurcation branches of a certain enlarged system.
A bifurcation problem for variational inequalities \[ U(t) \in K, (\dot{U}(t)-B_\lambda U(t) - G(\lambda ,U(t)),\ Z - U(t))\ge 0\ \text{for} \text{all} \ Z\in K, \text{a.a.} \ t \ge 0 \] is studied, where $K$ is a closed convex cone in $\mathbb{R}^\kappa $, $\kappa \ge 3$, $B_\lambda $ is a $\kappa \times \kappa $ matrix, $G$ is a small perturbation, $\lambda $ a real parameter. The main goal of the paper is to simplify the assumptions of the abstract results concerning the existence of a bifurcation of periodic solutions developed in the previous paper and to give examples in more than three dimensional case.
New general unique solvability conditions of the Cauchy problem for systems of general linear functional differential equations are established. The class of equations considered covers, in particular, linear equations with transformed argument, integro-differential equations, neutral type equations and their systems of an arbitrary order.
Consider the homogeneous equation $$ u'(t)=\ell (u)(t)\qquad \mbox {for a.e. } t\in [a,b] $$ where $\ell \colon C([a,b];\Bbb R)\to L([a,b];\Bbb R)$ is a linear bounded operator. The efficient conditions guaranteeing that the solution set to the equation considered is one-dimensional, generated by a positive monotone function, are established. The results obtained are applied to get new efficient conditions sufficient for the solvability of a class of boundary value problems for first order linear functional differential equations.
Synchronization with error bound of two non-identical forced oscillators is studied in the paper. By introducing two auxiliary autonomous systems, differential inequality technique and active control technique are used to deal with the synchronization of two non-identical forced oscillators with parameter mismatch in external harmonic excitations. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed method.