Isochronous bifurcations in second-order delay differential equations

Abstract

In this article we consider a special type of second-order delay differential equations. More precisely, we take an equation of a conservative mechanical system in one dimension with an added term that is a function of the difference between the value of the position at time t minus the position at the delayed time t−τ. For this system, we show that, under certain conditions of non-degeneration and of convergence of the periodic solutions obtained by the Homotopy Analysis Method, bifurcation branches appearing in a neighbourhood of Hopf bifurcation due to the delay are isochronous; i.e., all the emerging cycles have the same frequency.