On the zeros of transcendental functions with applications to stability of delay differential equations with two delays

Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series A: Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 863-874

  Ruan, Shigui ^a,c   Wei, Junjie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Compound optical resonators; Delay differential equations; Stability; Transcendental polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842465386     PISSN: 12013390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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