Metastability for delayed differential equations.
In systems at phase transitions, two phases of the same substance may coexist for a long time before one of them dominates. We show that a similar phenomenon occurs in systems with delayed feedback, where short-term stable oscillatory patterns can also have very long lifetimes before vanishing into constant or periodic steady states.
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Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66281, 05315-970 São Paulo, Brazil.
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Malta
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