Biological Delay Systems : Linear Stability Theory (Paperback)

Preface; 1. How delays arise and what effects they have; 2. Ordinary differential equations: the polynomial characteristic equation; 3. Functional differential equations: the transcendental characteristic equation; 4. Hurwitz polynomials; 5. First- and second-order systems with a discrete delay; 6. Higher-order systems, and systems with two delays; 7. Reducing a discrete delay problem to one with a polynomial characteristic equation; 8. Stability independent of delay; 9. Distributed delay; 10. Reducible delays and linear subsystems; Appendices; Solutions to exercises; References; Index.