Asymptotic stability of continuum sets of periodic solutions to systems with hysteresis

We consider hysteresis perturbations of a system of ODEs which possesses an asymptotically stable periodic solution z(*). Where the oscillation of an appropriate projection of this periodic solution is smaller than some threshold number defined by the hysteresis nonlinearity, it is shown that the perturbed system has a continuum of periodic solutions with a rather simple structure in a vicinity of z(*). The main result is a theorem on the stability of this continuum. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.