Bilateral Bounds for Norms of Solutions and Boundedness/Stability and Instability of Some Nonlinear Systems with Delays and Variable Coefficients

Abstract

This paper presents a novel methodology for evaluating the boundedness, stability, and instability of some vector nonlinear systems with multiple time-varying delays and variable coefficients. The proposed technique develops two scalar counterparts for the initial vector system. The solutions to these scalar nonlinear equations, which also incorporate delays and variable coefficients, provide upper and lower bounds for the norms of solutions to the original vector equations with corresponding history functions. This enables evaluation of the dynamics of a vector system through the analysis of its scalar counterparts. This analysis can be accomplished using simplified analytical reasoning or straightforward simulations, which remain effective even for systems with a large number of coupled equations. Consequently, we introduced some novel boundedness, stability and instability criteria and estimated the radiuses of the balls containing the history functions which stem bounded/stabile solutions to the vector systems. Lastly, we validate our results in representative simulations that also assess their accuracy.