EN
CONTENTS
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................5
I.........................................................................................................................................................15
1. Preliminaries...................................................................................................................................15
2. Solutions of a family of differential delay equations with periodic nonlinearity.................................16
3. Linearization of the semiflow............................................................................................................21
4. The saddle point property...............................................................................................................24
II........................................................................................................................................................30
5. The transformed semiflow...............................................................................................................30
6. A shift along the transformed semiflow............................................................................................36
7. The level sets $H⁺_{ak}$................................................................................................................44
8. Inclinations of tangent vectors.........................................................................................................46
9. Estimating D₁Σ(ψ,a) at BC-points ψ in level sets $H⁺_{ak}$............................................................48
10. End of the proof of Theorem 6.1...................................................................................................51
III.......................................................................................................................................................53
11. Šilnikov continuation and return map............................................................................................53
12. Smoothness properties of f...........................................................................................................56
13. Bifurcation.....................................................................................................................................58
14. Proof of Theorem 13.2 (vi.2) and (vi.3), for a parameter interval $A_{19}$ instead of A...............63
15. Proof of Theorem 13.2 (vi.1).........................................................................................................70
References.........................................................................................................................................74