Stability analysis of homogeneous cooperative positive differential systems with time-varying delays and its generalization

Abstract

This article is devoted to studying the asymptotic behavior of differential systems with bounded delays. We first focus on the analysis of homogeneous cooperative positive systems. Under the assumption that the vector field is homogeneous of a degree greater than 1, we show that the non-trivial solutions of the system converge to the origin at a polynomial rate. In the case when the degree of homogeneity equals 1, we prove that the solutions will decay at an exponential rate. As a generalization of these results, we consider nonlinear non-autonomous differential systems with time-varying delays that are bounded above by stable homogeneous positive systems. By some additional imposed conditions, in light of the comparison principle, we obtain the locally exponential stability and polynomial stability of the equilibrium point to these systems. Finally, specific examples and discussions are provided to illustrate the validity of the proposed theoretical results.