{ "id": "1902.08249", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-02-21T20:21:16.000Z", "updated": "2019-02-21T20:21:16.000Z", "title": "A new stability test for linear neutral differential equations", "authors": [ "Leonid Berezansky", "Elena Braverman" ], "comment": "7 pages", "journal": "Appl. Math. Lett. 81 (2018), 79-85", "doi": "10.1016/j.aml.2018.02.005", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We obtain new explicit exponential stability conditions for the linear scalar neutral equation with two bounded delays $ \\dot{x}(t)-a(t)\\dot{x}(g(t))+b(t)x(h(t))=0, $ where $ 0\\leq a(t)\\leq A_0<1$, $0