TY - JOUR ID - Ardjouni2012 LB - Ardjouni2012 AU - Ardjouni, Abdelouaheb AU - Djoudi, Ahcene TI - Fixed points and stability in neutral nonlinear differential equations with variable delays ST - Fixed points and stability in neutral nonlinear differential equations with variable delays JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2012 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 19 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2012.32.1.5 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2012.32.1.5 AB - By means of Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem we obtain boundedness and stability results of a neutral nonlinear differential equation with variable delays. A stability theorem with a necessary and sufficient condition is given. The results obtained here extend and improve the work of C. H. Jin and J. W. Luo [Nonlinear Anal. 68 (2008), 3307-3315], and also those of T. A. Burton [Fixed Point Theory 4 (2003), 15-32; Dynam. Systems Appl. 11 (2002), 499-519] and B. Zhang [Nonlinear Anal. 63 (2005), e233-e242]. In the end we provide an example to illustrate our claim. KW - fixed points KW - stability KW - nonlinear neutral differential equation KW - integral equation KW - variable delays SN - 1232-9274 ER -