  We study the conditions of amplitude death in a network of delay-coupled
limit cycle oscillators by including time-varying delay in the coupling and
self-feedback. By generalizing the master stability function formalism to
include variable-delay connections with high-frequency delay modulations (i.e.,
the distributed-delay limit), we analyze the regimes of amplitude death in a
ring network of Stuart-Landau oscillators and demonstrate the superiority of
the proposed method with respect to the constant delay case. The possibility of
stabilizing the steady state is restricted by the odd-number property of the
local node dynamics independently of the network topology and the coupling
parameters.
