Stability analysis and design of amplitude death induced by a time-varying delay connection

The present Letter considers amplitude death in a pair of oscillators coupled by a time-varying delay connection. A linear stability analysis is used to derive the boundary curves for amplitude death in a connection parameters space. The delay time can be arbitrarily long for certain amplitude of delay variation and coupling strength. A simple systematic procedure for designing such variation and strength is provided. The theoretical results are verified by a numerical simulation.