Abstract
The paper originates from the early ideas of A. D. Myshkis and his co-workers and of K. L. Cooke and his co-worker. These ideas send to a one-to-one correspondence between lossless and/or distortionless propagation described by nonstandard boundary value problems and a system of coupled differential and difference equations with deviated argument. In this way any property obtained for one mathematical object is automatically projected back on the other one. This approach is considered here for certain engineering applications. The common feature of these applications is the critical stability of the difference operator associated with the system with deviated argument obtained for each of the aforementioned applications. In fact the associated systems are of neutral type and, according to the assumption of Hale, only strong stability of the difference operator ensures robust asymptotic stability with respect to the delays. If the difference operator is in the critical case, the stability becomes fragile with respect to the delays. Based on some old results in the field, a conjecture concerning the (quasi)-critical modes of the system is stated; also a connection with the so called dissipative boundary conditions is suggested.
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