Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of a Fractional Order Delay Differential Equation Involving Cubic Nonlinearity (2204.12110v1)

Abstract: Fractional derivative and delay are important tools in modeling memory properties in the natural system. This work deals with the stability analysis of a fractional order delay differential equation \begin{equation*} D^\alpha x(t)=\delta x(t-\tau)-\epsilon x(t-\tau)^3-px(t)^2+q x(t). \end{equation*} We provide linearization of this system in a neighbourhood of equilibrium points and propose linearized stability conditions. To discuss the stability of equilibrium points, we propose various conditions on the parameters $\delta$, $\epsilon$, $p$, $q$ and $\tau$. Even though there are five parameters involved in the system, we are able to provide the stable region sketch in the $q\delta-$plane for any positive $\epsilon$ and $p$. This provides the complete analysis of stability of the system. Further, we investigate chaos in the proposed model. This system exhibits chaos for a wide range of delay parameter.