Boundary-value problems of functional differential equations with state-dependent delays

Abstract: We prove convergence of piecewise polynomial collocation methods applied to periodic boundary value problems for functional differential equations with state-dependent delays. The state dependence of the delays leads to nonlinearities that are not locally Lipschitz continuous preventing the direct application of general abstract discretization theoretic frameworks. We employ a weaker form of differentiability, which we call mild differentiability, to prove that a locally unique solution of the functional differential equation is approximated by the solution of the discretized problem with the expected order.