Global Hopf Bifurcation of State-Dependent Delay Differential Equations

Abstract

We apply the [Formula: see text]-equivariant degree method to a Hopf bifurcation problem for functional differential equations with a state-dependent delay. The formal linearization of the system at a stationary state is extracted and translated into a bifurcation invariant by using the homotopy invariance of [Formula: see text]-equivariant degree. As a result, the local Hopf bifurcation is detected and the global continuation of periodic solutions is described.