Abstract:
The importance of functional differential equations of pointwise type is determined by the fact that their solutions are used to construct traveling-wave solutions for induced infinite-dimensional ordinary differential equations, and vice versa. Solutions of such equations exhibit bifurcation. A theorem on branching bifurcation is obtained for the solution to a linear homogeneous functional differential equation of pointwise type.
Key words:functional differential equation, initial-boundary value problem, bifurcation.