Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
The singularly perturbed differential-delay equation
is studied for a class of step-function nonlinearities f. We show that in general the discrete system
does not mirror the dynamics of (*), even for small ε, but that rather a different system
does. Here F is related to, but different from, f, and describes the evolution of transition layers. In this context, we also study the effects of smoothing out the discontinuities of f.