Existence and global asymptotic stability of periodic solution for discrete and distributed time-varying delayed neural networks with discontinuous activations

  • Authors:
  • Zuowei Cai;Lihong Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Mathematics and Econometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, PR China;College of Mathematics and Econometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, PR China and Hunan Womens University, Changsha, Hunan 410004, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we study a general class of neural networks with discrete and distributed time-varying delays, whose neuron activations are discontinuous and may be unbounded or nonmonotonic. By using the Leray-Schauder alternative theorem in multivalued analysis, matrix theory and generalized Lyapunov-like approach, we obtain some sufficient conditions ensuring the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the periodic solution. Moreover, when all the variable coefficients and time delays are real constants, we discuss the global convergence in finite time of the neural network dynamical system. Our results extend previous works not only on discrete and distributed time-varying delayed neural networks with continuous or even Lipschitz continuous activations, but also on discrete and distributed time-varying delayed neural networks with discontinuous activations. Two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our main results.