Abstract

The existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions for inertial type BAM Cohen-Grossberg neural networks are investigated. First, by properly choosing variable substitution, the system is transformed to first order differential equation. Second, some sufficient conditions that ensure the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions for the system are obtained by constructing suitable Lyapunov functional and using differential mean value theorem and inequality technique. Finally, two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the results.

1. Introduction

The Cohen-Grossberg-type BAM neural networks model is initially proposed by Cohen and Grossberg [1], has their promising potential for the tasks of parallel computation, associative memory, and has great ability to solve difficult optimization problems. Thus, the analysis of the dynamical behaviors of bidirectional associative memory neural networks and Cohen-Grossberg neural networks is important and necessary. In recent years, many researchers have studied the stability and other dynamical behaviors of the Cohen-Grossberg-type BAM neural networks; see [210].

On the other hand, some authors studied neural networks, added the inertia, and obtained some results. For example, Li et al. [11] added the inertia to a delay differential equation which can be described by and obtained obvious chaotic behavior. Liu et al. [12, 13] found chaotic behavior of the inertial two-neuron system with time through numerical simulation and gave that the system will lose its stability when the time delay is increased and will rise a quasiperiodic motion and chaos under the interaction of the periodic excitation. Wheeler and Schieve [14] added the inertia to a continuous-time Hopfield effective-neuron system which is shown to exhibit chaos. They explain that the chaos is confirmed by Lyapunov exponents, power spectra, and phase space plotsthis system is described by Babcock and Westervelt [15] studied the electronic neural networks with added inertia and found that when the neuron couplings are of an inertial nature, the dynamics can be complex, in contrast to the simpler behavior displayed when they of the standard resistor-capacitor variety. For various values of the neuron gain and the quality factor of the couplings, they find ringing about the stationary points, instability and spontaneous oscillation, intertwined basins of attraction, and chaotic response to a harmonic drive. Ge and Xu [16] considered an inertial four-neuron delayed bidirectional associative memory model. Weak resonant double Hopf bifurcations are completely analyzed in the parameter space of the coupling weight and the coupling delay by the perturbation-incremental scheme. Others, Liu et al. [17, 18], investigated the Hopf bifurcation and dynamics of an inertial two-neuron system or in a single inertial neuron mode. Zhao et al. [19] investigated the stability and the bifurcation of a class of inertial neural networks. The authors Ke and Miao [20, 21] investigated stability of equilibrium point and periodic solutions in inertial BAM neural networks with time delays, respectively. From the above, the inertia can be considered a useful tool that is added to help in the generation of chaos in neural systems. Horikawa and Kitajima [22] investigated a kinematical description of traveling waves of the oscillations in neural networks with inertia. When the inertia is below a critical value and the state of each neuron is overdamped, properties of the networks are the same as those without inertia. The duration of the transient oscillations increases with inertia, and the increasing rate of the logarithm of the duration becomes more than double. When the inertia exceeds a critical value and the state of each neuron becomes underdamped, properties of the networks qualitatively change. The periodic solution is stabilized through the pitchfork bifurcation as inertia increases. More bifurcations occur so that various periodic solutions are generated, and the stability of the periodic solutions changes alternately. Ke and Miao [23] investigated the stability of inertial Cohen-Grossberg-type neural networks with time delays. To the best of our knowledge, the question on the periodic solutions of inertial type BAM Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time delays is still open. To provide the theoretical basis of practical application, this paper is devoted to present a sufficient criterion to ensure the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions for inertial type BAM Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time delays.

We consider the following inertial type BAM Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time delays: for , , where the second derivative is called an inertial term of system (3); , are constants; and are the states of the neuron from the neural field and the th neuron from the neural field at the time , respectively; , denote the activation functions of neuron from and the neuron from , respectively; weights the strength of the neuron on the neuron at the time ; weights the strength of the neuron on the neuron at the time ; and ; , denote the external inputs on the neuron from and the neuron from at the time , respectively; and represent amplification functions; and are appropriately behaved functions such that the solutions of model (3) remain bounded.

The initial conditions of system (3) are given by where , , , and are bounded and continuous functions.

This paper is organized as follows. Some preliminaries are given in Section 2. In Section 3, the sufficient conditions are derived which ensure the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions for inertial Cohen-Grossberg-type BAM neural networks. In Section 4, two illustrative examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed theory.

2. Preliminaries

Throughout this paper, we make the following assumptions.For each , , the functions , , , and are differentiable and satisfy for all , .For each , , the activation functions , satisfy Lipschitz condition, and there exist constants , , , and , such that For each , , , are continuously periodic functions defined on with common period and satisfy , .Let ; there exist constants and , such that Let ; there exist constants and , such that

and are continuously differentiable periodic functions, and there exist constants and , such that where , , and and express the derivative of and .

Introducing variable transformation then (3) and (4) can be rewritten as for , .

Definition 1. Let be an periodic solution of system (3) with initial value for every solution of system (3) with any initial value If there exist constants and , such that for , , and , then solutions , are said to be exponentially stable, where

3. Main Results

In this section, we can derive some sufficient conditions which ensure the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions for system (3).

Theorem 2. For system (3), under the hypotheses , then , , , and are bounded, , , and .

Proof. If , then we have if , then Hence, . Similarly, we can get Since are differentiable on , and then we have where lies between and .
It follows from (3) that Similarly, we can obtain From (21), (22), we can obtain where and , are any real constants: where and , are any real constants.
Since , , we have , , , and , and formula (23) shows that all solutions to (3) are bounded for , .
Formula (24) shows that all solutions to (3) are bounded for , .
On the other hand, from (3) we also can obtain
Since , are bounded, we may assume that , , where , are constants, , .
From (25), we have Formula (27) shows that all solutions are bounded for , .
From (26), we have Formula (28) shows that all solutions are bounded for , .

Theorem 3. Under the hypotheses , if , , and for , , then system (3) has one -periodic solution, which is exponentially stable.

Proof. If , , , and are -periodic solution of (11), which are exponentially stable, then we can obtain that () are -periodic solution of system (3), which is exponentially stable. In the following we only prove that (11) has one -periodic solution, which is exponentially stable.
Let be solution of system (3) with initial value , and let be solution of system (3) with any initial value .
Let for , .
From (11), we can obtain for for .
Since functions and are differentiable, using differential mean value theorem, we have where and lie between and .
Since , if , then we have and .
From (33) we get From (36), we can obtain for , .
Similar to the above derivation, from (34) we can get for , .
We consider the Lyapunov functional where is a small number.
Calculating the upper right Dini-derivative of along the solution of (33) and (34), using (37) and (38), we have From condition of Theorem 3, we can choose a small such that From (40), we get and so , for all . From (39), we have where
Since , from (42), we obtain From (44), we obtain
For , , when , , , and are continuously periodic functions defined on with common period , if , are the solutions of (3), then for any natural number , , are the solutions of (3). Thus, from (45), there exist constants and , such that for , , .
It is noted that, for any natural number , Thus
Since is bounded, it follows from (46) and (49) that uniformly converges to a continuous functions on any compact set of .
Similarly, since is bounded, from (47), uniformly converges to a continuous function on any compact set of .
When , , , and are bounded, , , and we can obtain that , are bounded. Similarly, from (44), they can be proved that , uniformly converge to continuous functions and on any compact set of , respectively.
Now we will show that is the -periodic solution of system (3).
First, , are -periodic functions, since Second, we prove that is a solution of system (3).
In fact, , , , , and for , .
Since and uniformly converge to continuous function respectively, and uniformly converge to a continuous function respectively. (51) implies that uniformly converge to continuous functions on any compact set of , respectively. Thus, let ; we obtain for , .
Thus, is a periodic solution of system (3). From (45), we obtain that system (3) has one -periodic solution, which is exponentially stable.

Theorem 4. Under the hypotheses , there is -periodic solution of system (3), which is exponentially stable, if the following conditions hold: for , .

Proof. Let be solution of system (3) with initial value , and let be solution of system (3) with any initial value .
From (33), we can obtain for .
From (34), we can obtain for .
From (60) and (62), we can obtain for . for .
We consider the functions , given by for , .
Obviously for , .
Therefore, there exist constants , , such that We choose , then ; when , we have for , .
Since the initial values , , , and are bounded and continuous functions, then there exist , , , and , such that , , , , , , and , .
Let ; we will show that, for any sufficiently small constant and , for , , and .
Considering proof of contradiction, if (69) does not hold, there are 15 possible situations; here we only discuss the following four cases; that is, or where , , and , , and .
Therefore, by (59) and (70), we have which is a contradiction with .
By (63) and (71), we obtain
Since we have
From (75), we have which is a contradiction.
Therefore, by (61) and (75), we have which is a contradiction with .
By (70) and (80), we obtain
Since we have
From (80), we have which is a contradiction.
Similarly, we can prove that the other 11 possible situations; thus (69) holds; let ; we have for , , and .
From (84), there exist constants and such that Using (85), similarly with the proof of Theorem 3, we know that system (3) has one -periodic solution, which is exponentially stable.

4. Numerical Examples

In this section, we give two examples for showing our results.

Example 1. We consider the following inertial Cohen-Grossberg-type BAM neural networks with time delays : for , where Obviously, By assumptions , we select Thus, hypotheses hold.
For numerical simulation, the following ten any intial values are given: Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 depict the time responses of state variables of , , and and , , and , of the system in Example 1, respectively.
On the other hand, we have the following results by simple calculation:
Then, the conditions of Theorem 3 hold. From Theorem 3, system (86) has one -periodic solution, and all other solutions of system (86) exponentially converge to it as .
Evidently, this consequence is coincident with the results of numerical simulation.

Example 2. For system (86), let , , , , , and ,; the other parameters are the same as those in Example 1.
Through numerical simulation, Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 depict the time responses of state variables of , , and and , , and , of the system in Example 2, respectively.
On the other hand, we have the following results by simple calculation: Then, the conditions of Theorem 4 hold. From Theorem 4, system (86) has one -periodic solution, and all other solutions of system (86) exponentially converge to it as .
Evidently, this consequence is coincident with the results of numerical simulation.

Remark 5. Examples 1 and 2 showed that system (86) has one -periodic solution, which is exponentially stable. In Example 1, there is But this condition does not satisfy Theorem 4. While in Example 2, there is This condition does not satisfy Theorem 3. It showed that Theorems 3 and 4 have different applications.
In fact, the parameter , in Theorem 3 must be satisfied For Theorem 4, it is only required to satisfy Therefore, Theorems 3 and 4 can solve different problems.

5. Conclusion

In this paper, we give three theorems to ensure the existence and the exponential stability of the periodic solution for inertial Cohen-Grossberg-type BAM neural networks. Novel existence and stability conditions are stated with simple algebraic forms and their verification and applications are straightforward and convenient. Especially, we give different conditions in Theorems 3 and 4 to ensure the exponential stability of the periodic solution, which have different advantages in different problems and applications. Finally two examples illustrate the effectiveness in different conditions. The method used in this paper can be employed to study general neural network with time-varying delays.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgment

This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (no. Y6100096).