Seminar
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Location: | SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium |
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In 1962 G.S. Jones conjectured that the nonlinear delay differential equation
known as Wright’s equation has a unique slowly oscillating periodic solution for all pa-
rameters above a particular value. This talk presents a computer-assisted proof of the
conjecture. Furthermore, we show there are no isolas of periodic solutions to Wright's
equation; all periodic orbits arise from Hopf bifurcations.