Density Evolution Under Delayed Dynamics

“The book is devoted to the problem of evolution of densities in dynamical systems described by delay differential equations. … The book is interesting and introduces the reader to the problem of the evolution of the densities. Indeed, formulating (if possible) such an evolution one is able to guess the asymptotic behavior of the solutions with known density of their initial values. The examples in the book are carefully selected in order to illustrate the main theoretical results.” (George Karakostas, zbMATH 1462.37001, 2021)

• Part I. Introduction and Background to Density Evolution Problems.- 1. Introduction and Motivation.- 2. Density Evolution in Systems with Finite Dimensional Dynamics.- Part II. Illustrating the Problem and Making it Precise for Differential Delay Equations.- 3. Dynamics in Ensembles of Differential Delay Equations.- 4. The Problem.- III. Possible Analytical Approaches.- 5. The Hopf Functional Approach.- 6. The Method of Steps.- Part IV. Possible Approximating Solutions.- 7. Turning a Differential Delay Equation into a High-Dimensional Map.- 8. Approximate "Liouville-like" Equation.- 9. Summary and Conclusions.- References.- Index.