Instability of a Nonlinear Differential Equation of Fifth Order with Variable Delay

In this paper, we study the instability of the zero solution to a nonlinear differential equation with variable delay. By using the Lyapunov functional approach, some sufficient conditions for instability of the zero solution are obtained.

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• Instability
• Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional
• delay differential equation
• fifth order.

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