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On the stability for a population growth equation with time delay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Jitsuro Sugie
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan

Synopsis

In this paper we give a sufficient condition which guarantees that the zero solution of a population growth equation is uniformly stable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992

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