An. Şt. Univ. Ovidius Constanţa Vol. 18(2), 2010, 295–314 GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang Abstract In this paper, with the help of the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem, differential inequality techniques and suitable Lyapunov functional, several novel sufficient conditions on the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solutions for the generalized shunting Inhibitory cellular neural networks are developed, which improve some published results. Particularly, the precise convergence rate index is also obtained. One example with its numerical simulation is employed to illustrate the generalized results. 1 Introduction and preliminaries In recent years, the shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) have been extensively studied and found many important applications in different Key Words: Shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks; Global exponential stability; Periodic solution 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 34C25; 34K13; 34K25 The corresponding author: Xinsong Yang This work was supported in part by the Foundation of Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (2008), the Excellent Youth Foundation of Educational Committee of Hunan Provincial under Grant No. 10B002, the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department of China under Grant No. 2009FJ3103 and the Scientific Research Fund of Yunnan Province. Received: August, 2009 Accepted: January, 2010 295 296 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang areas such as psychophysics, speech, perception, robotics, adaptive pattern recognition, vision, and image processing. To date, many interesting results on stability of SICNNs have been obtained. In particular, some results on the existence and exponential stability of (almost) periodic solutions for SICNNs with delays have been reported in [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. However, SICNNs in [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] are all with constant coefficients. Non-autonomous phenomena often occur in many realistic systems, hence, it is of prime importance to study the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions and almost periodic solutions of SICNNs with variable coefficients. In this paper, we consider the following general SICNNs with delays, which includes SICNNs in [1, 3, 4, 6] as special cases. x0ij (t) = −aij (t, xij (t)) + + X X B kl ∈N kl Bij (t)fij (t, xkl (t))xij (t) r (i,j) kl Cij (t)gij (t, xkl (t − τkl (t)))xij (t) + Iij (t), (1.1) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) where i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. τij (t) represents axonal signal transmission delays and continuous with 0 ≤ τkl (t) ≤ τ ; Cij (t) denotes the cell at the (i, j) position of the lattice at the t, the r-neighborhood Nr (i, j) of Cij (t) is Nr (i, j) = {C kl (t) : max(|k − i|, |l − j|) ≤ r, 1 ≤ k ≤ m, 1 ≤ l ≤ n}. xij (t) is the activity of the cell Cij (t), Iij (t) is the external input to Cij (t) , kl (t) is aij (t, xij (t)) represents the passive decay function of the cell activity; Cij the connection or coupling strength of postsynaptic activity of the cell transmitted to the cell Cij (t), the activity function fij (t, ·) is a continuous function representing the output or firing rate of the cell C kl (t); ϕij (t) is the initial function, and is assumed to be bounded and continuous on [−τ, 0]. kl (t), fij (t, ·), Iij (t), ϕij (t) are all continuous periodic functions. aij (t), Cij For convenience, we introduce the notations: τ = max(i,j) {τij (t)|t ∈ [0, ω]}, I ij = maxt∈[0,ω] |Iij (t)|, µij = mint∈[0,ω] µij (t), x = (x11 , x12 , · · · , x1m , · · · , xn1 , xn2 , · · · , xnm )T be a column vector, in which the symbol T denotes the transpose of a vector. The initial condition φ = (φ11 , · · · , φ1m , · · · , φn1 , · · · , φnm )T of (1.1) is of the form xij (s) = φij (s), s ∈ (−τ, 0], where φij (s), i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, · · · , m, are continuous ω-periodic solutions. GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 297 Definition 1.1. Let x∗ (t) be an ω-periodic solution of (1.1) with initial value φ∗ . If there exist constants α > 0 and P ≥ 1 such that for every solution x(t) of (1.1) with initial value φ, |xij (t) − x∗ij (t)| ≤ P kφ − φ∗ ke−αt , ∀t > 0, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, where kφ − φ∗ k = max(i,j) sup−τ ≤s≤0 {|φij (s) − φ∗ij (s)|}. Then x∗ (t) is said to be globally exponentially stable. Lemma 1.1(Leray-Schauder). Let E be a Banach space, and let the operator A : E → E be completely continuous. If the set {kxk|x ∈ E, x = λAx, 0 < λ < 1} is bounded, then A has a fixed point in T , where T = {x|x ∈ E, kxk ≤ R}, R = sup{kxk|x = λAx, 0 < λ < 1}. Lemma 1.2 [2]. For any x, y ≥ 0, q > 0.5, the inequality x2q−1 y ≤ 1 2q − 1 2q x + y 2q 2q 2q holds. Obviously, when q = 0.5, the above inequality also holds. Hence, for any x, y ≥ 0, q ≥ 1, we have xq−1 y ≤ q−1 q 1 q x + y . q q (1.2) The main purpose of this paper is to obtain sufficient conditions for the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solutions for (1.1). The main methods used in this paper are Leray-Schauder’s fixed point theorem, differential inequality techniques and Lyapunov functional. The results of this paper generalize and complement some published results. One example is employed to illustrate our feasible results. Throughout this paper, we assume that kl kl (H1 ) Bij (t), Cij (t), τij (t) ≥ 0, Iij (t) are continuous ω-periodic functions. ω > 0 is a constant, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m; (H2 ) aij (t, u) ∈ C(R2 , R) are ω-periodic about the first argument, aij (t, 0) = 0 and there are positive continuous ω-periodic functions µij (t) such that ∂aij (t,u) ∂a (t,u) ≥ µij (t), ij∂u are bounded, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m; ∂u (H3 ) fij (t, u), gij (t, u) ∈ C(R2 , R) are ω-periodic about the first argument. There are continuous ω-periodic solutions δij (t) and γij (t) such that δij (t) = supu∈R |fij (t, u)|, γij (t) = supu∈R |gij (t, u)|, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m; 298 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang ½ (H4 ) max(i,j) sup0≤t≤ω δij (t) P B kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl |Bij (t)|+γij (t) µij (t) P C kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl |Cij (t)| ¾ =θ and θ < 1; (H5 ) There are non-negative continuous ω-periodic solutions αij (t) and βij (t) such that ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ f (t,u)−f (t,v) ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯, βij (t) = supu6=v ¯ gij (t,u)−gij (t,v) ¯ for αij (t) = supu6=v ¯¯ ij u−vij u−v ¯ ¯ ¯ all u, v ∈ R, u 6= v, i = 1, 2, · · · , n j = 1, 2, · · · , m. The organization of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, we study the existence of periodic solutions of system (1.1) by using the Leray-Schauder’s fixed point theorem. In Section 3, by constructing Lyapunov functional, we shall derive new sufficient conditions for the global exponential stability of the periodic solution of system (1.1). Moreover, we compare our results with some of previously know results. At last, an example is employed to illustrate the feasible results of this paper. 2 Existence of periodic solutions Let ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m be positive constants. Make the change of variables xij = ξij yij (t), i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, (2.1) then (1.1) can be reformulated as −1 0 yij (t) = −ξij aij (t, ξij yij (t)) + + X B kl ∈N X kl Bij (t)fij (t, ξkl ykl (t))yij (t) r (i,j) kl Cij (t)gij (t, ξkl ykl (t −1 − τkl (t)))yij (t) + ξij Iij (t). (2.2) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) System (2.2) can be rewritten as 0 yij (t) = −dij (t, yij (t))yij (t) + + X X B kl ∈N kl Bij (t)fij (t, ξkl ykl (t))yij (t) r (i,j) kl Cij (t)gij (t, ξkl ykl (t −1 − τkl (t)))yij (t) + ξij Iij (t), (2.3) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) . ∂a (t,u) where dij (t, yij (t)) = ij∂u |u=dij , dij is between 0 and ξij yij (t), dij ∈ R. By (H2 ), we obtain aij (t, ξij yij ) is strictly monotone increasing about yij . Hence, dij (t, yij (t)) is unique for any yij (t). Obviously, dij (t, yij (t)) is continuous ω-periodic about the first argument and dij (t, yij (t)) ≥ µij (t). GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 299 Lemma 2.1. Suppose that (H1 )-(H3 ) hold and let x(t) be an ω-periodic solution of (1.1). Then, · Z ω X y kl yij (t) = Hij (t, s) Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) 0 B kl ∈Nr (i,j) X + kl Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + −1 ξij Iij (s) ¸ ds, C kl ∈Nr (i,j) t ∈ [0, ω], i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, (2.4) where, y Hij (t, s) = Rt e− sR dij (v,yij (v))dv , 0≤s≤t ω 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv 1−eR− R −( 0ω dij (v,yij (v))dv− ts dij (v,yij (v))dv) e Rω , 1−e− 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv ≤ ω, 0 ≤ t < s ≤ ω. Proof. From the system (2.3), we have µ ¶0 · Rt dij (s,yij (s))ds 0 yij (t)e = X B kl ∈N X kl Bij (t)fij (t, ξkl ykl (t))yij (t) + r (i,j) ¸ R t −1 kl Cij (t)gij (t, ξkl ykl (t − τkl (t)))yij (t) + ξij Iij (t) e 0 dij (s,yij (s))ds .(2.5) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Integrating (2.5) from 0 to t, we have Z t· R − 0t dij (s,yij (s))ds yij (t) = e yij (0) + 0 X X kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) ¸ R t −1 kl (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + ξij Cij Iij (s) e− s dij (v,yij (v))dv ds.(2.6) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) From xij (ω) = xij (0) and (2.1), we have yij (ω) = yij (0). By (2.6), we obtain − 1−e X C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Rω 0 1 dij (s,yij (s))ds Z ω 0 · yij (0) = X B kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + ¸ R ω −1 kl Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + ξij Iij (s) e− s dij (v,yij (v))dv ds.(2.7) 300 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang Substituting (2.7) into (2.6), we obtain yij (t) = e− 1−e Rt dij (s,yij (s))ds R − 0ω dij (v,yij (v))dv 0 X C kl ∈N X 0 X kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) − τkl (s)))yij (s) + ¸ −1 ξij Iij (s) C kl ∈N e− Rω dij (v,yij (v))dv s ds kl (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + Bij B kl ∈Nr (i,j) X 0 0 · r (i,j) Z t· Z ω kl Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s + = Z ¸ kl Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + −1 ξij Iij (s) e− Rt s dij (v,yij (v))dv r (i,j) ω · y Hij (t, s) X kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) X ¸ kl Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + −1 ξij Iij (s) ds. C kl ∈Nr (i,j) This completes the proof. In order to use Lemma 1.1, we take X = {y|y ∈ C([0, ω], Rnm )}. Then X is a Banach space with the norm kyk = max{|yij |0 }, |yij |0 = sup |yij (t)|, i = 1, · · · , n, j = 1, · · · , m. (i,j) 0≤t≤ω Take a mapping Φ : X → X by setting (Φy)(t) = ((Φy)11 (t), (Φy)12 (t), · · · , (Φy)nm (t))T , where Z (Φy)ij (t) = 0 ω · y Hij (t, s) X B kl ∈N X kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + r (i,j) ¸ −1 kl (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + ξij Cij Iij (s) ds, C kl ∈Nr (i,j) i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. It is easy to know the fact that the existence of ω-periodic solution of (1.1) is equivalent to the existence of fixed point of the mapping Φ in X. ds GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 301 Lemma 2.2. Suppose that (H1 )-(H4 ) hold. Then Φ : X → X is completely continuous. Proof. Under our assumptions, it is clear that the operator Φ is continuous. Next, we show that Φ is compact. Since µij (t), i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m are positive ω-periodic solutions, µij > 0. For any constant D > 0, let Ω = {y|y ∈ X, kyk < D}. For any y ∈ Ω, we have kΦyk = ½¯ Z ¯ ¯ ¯ 0≤t≤ω ω max sup (i,j) + 0 · ½Z ω max sup (i,j) 0≤t≤ω B kl ∈Nr (i,j) 0 ·µ y (t, s) Hij δij (s) X kl |Bij (s)| B kl ∈Nr (i,j) ¶ ¸ ¾ −1 kl |Cij (s)| yij (s) + ξij Iij (s) ds X +γij (s) kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) ¸ ¯¾ ¯ −1 kl Iij (s) ds¯¯ Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s − τkl (s)))yij (s) + ξij X C kl ∈Nr (i,j) ≤ X y Hij (t, s) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) ¾ ¾ ½ I ij y Hij (t, s)µij (s)θds kyk + max ξij µij (i,j) 0≤t≤ω (i,j) 0 ½ ¾ I ij θD + max , ξij µij (i,j) ½Z ≤ < ω max sup this implies that Φ(Ω) is uniformly bounded, where, ½Z t R t 1 y Rω e− s dij (v,yij (v))dv µij (s)ds Hij (t, s)µij (s)ds = − 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv 1−e 0 ¾0 Z ω R Rω s − 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv d (v,y (v)dv) ij ij +e et µij (s)ds t ½Z t R t 1 Rω e− s µij (v)dv µij (s)ds 1 − e− 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv 0 ¾ Z ω R R s − 0ω dij (v,yij (v))dv e t dij (v,yij (v))dv dij (s, yij (s))ds +e t ½ ³ Rω ´¾ R Rω − 0t µij (s)dv 1−e + e− 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv e t dij (v,yij (v)dv) − 1 Z ≤ = ω 1 − e− Rω 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv 302 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang ½ 1 − e− Rt 0 µij (s)dv = + e− Rt 0 dij (v,yij (v))dv 1 − e− Rω 0 − e− Rω 0 ¾ dij (v,yij (v))dv ≤ 1. dij (v,yij (v))dv By (H2 ), there exists a constant M > 0 such that |dij (t, yij (t))| ≤ M, for t ∈ [0, ω] × Ω, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. In view of the definition of Φ, we have µZ ω · X d y (Φy)0ij (t) = Hij (t, s) dt 0 kl B X kl Bij (s)fij (s, ξkl ykl (s))yij (s) + ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) = − τkl (s)))yij (s) + X −dij (t, yij (t))(Φy)ij (t) + −1 ξij Iij (s) ¶ ds kl (s)fij (t, ξkl ykl (t))yij (t) + Bij B kl ∈Nr (i,j) X C kl ∈N ¸ kl Cij (s)gij (s, ξkl ykl (s −1 kl Cij (t)gij (t, ξkl ykl (t − τkl (t)))yij (t) + ξij Iij (t). r (i,j) Hence, µ ½ ¾¶ ¯ ¯ I ij ¯(Φy)0ij (t)¯ ≤ M θD + max + ξij µij (i,j) ½ ¾ X X I ij kl kl max B ij δ ij D + C ij γ ij D + , ξij (i,j) kl kl B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C ∈Nr (i,j) kl kl kl where B ij = supt∈[0,ω] |Bij (t)|, δ ij = supt∈[0,ω] δij (t) C ij = supt∈[0,ω] |Cij (t)|, γ ij = supt∈[0,ω] γij (t). So, Φ(Ω) ⊆ X is a family of uniformly bounded and equi-continuous subsets. By using the Arzela-Ascoli Theorem, Φ : X → X is compact. Therefore, Φ : X → X is completely continuous. This completes the proof. Theorem 2.1. Suppose that (H1 )-(H4 ) hold. Let ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m be positive constants. Then the system (1.1) has an ω-periodic . e= solution x∗ (t) with kx∗ k ≤ max(i,j) {ξij }R R0 , where ½ ¾ I max(i,j) ξijij µ ij e= R . 1−θ GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 303 Proof. Let y ∈ X, t ∈ [0, ω]. We consider the operator equation y = λΦy, λ ∈ (0, 1). (2.8) If y is a solution of (2.8), for t ∈ [0, ω], we obtain ½ ¾ I ij kyk ≤ kΦyk ≤ θkyk + max . ξij µij (i,j) This and (H4 ) imply that e kyk ≤ R. e In view of Lemma 1.1, we obtain that Φ has a fixed point y ∗ (t) with ky ∗ k ≤ R. Hence, system (2.3) has one ω-periodic solution ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ , y12 , · · · , y1m , · · · , yn1 , yn2 , · · · , ynm )T y ∗ (t) = (y11 e It follows from (2.1) that with ky ∗ k ≤ R. x∗ (t) = (x∗11 (t), x∗12 (t), · · · , x∗1m (t), · · · , x∗n1 (t), x∗n2 (t), · · · , x∗nm (t))T = ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ = (ξ11 y11 , ξ12 y12 , · · · , ξ1m y1m , · · · , ξn1 yn1 , ξn2 yn2 , · · · , ξnm ynm )T is one ω-periodic solution of (1.1) with . e= kx∗ k ≤ max{ξij }R R0 . (i,j) This completes the proof. 3 Global exponential stability of periodic solution In this Section, we shall construct a suitable Lyapunov functional to derive sufficient conditions ensuring that (1.1) has a unique ω-periodic solution and all solutions of (1.1) exponentially converge to its unique ω-periodic solution. Theorem 3.1. Assume (H1 )-(H3 ), (H5 ) and (H6 ); where (H6 ) is (H6 ) There are positive constants p ≥ 1 and ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, such that ½ kl ¾ kl pAij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij + R0 Fijkl (ξ, p, t) max sup < 1, pµij (t)ξij (i,j) 0≤t≤ω 304 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang where, Akl ij (t) = δij (t) X B kl ∈N X kl Dij (t) = r (i,j) X = X kl |Bij (t)| + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) Fijkl (ξ, p, t) X kl |Bij (t)| + γij (t) C kl ∈N r (i,j) kl |Cij (t)|, C kl ∈Nr (i,j) p kl |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl |Cij (t)|, X p kl |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t). C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Then the system (1.1) has exactly one ω-periodic solution, which is globally exponentially stable. Proof. Obviously that (H6 ) implies (H4 ). By Theorem 2.1, there exists an ω-periodic solution x∗ (t) of (1.2) with initial value φ∗ (t) = (φ∗11 (t), · · · , φ∗1m (t), · · · , φ∗n1 (t), · · · , φ∗nm (t))T and kx∗ k ≤ R0 . Suppose that x(t) is an arbitrary solution of system (1.1) with initial value φ(t) = (φ11 (t), · · · , φ1m (t), · · · , φn1 (t), · · · , φnm (t))T . Set z(t) = (z11 (t), · · · , z1m (t), · · · , zn1 (t), · · · , znm (t))T = x(t) − x∗ (t). Then, from system (1.1) we have X + + kl (t)[fij (t, xkl (t))xij (t) − fij (t, x∗kl (t))x∗ij (t)] Bij B kl ∈Nr (i,j) X C kl ∈N 0 (t) = −[aij (t, xij (t)) − aij (t, x∗ij (t))] zij kl Cij (t)[gij (t, xkl (t − τkl (t)))xij (t) − gij (t, x∗kl (t − τkl (t)))x∗ij (t)].(3.1) r (i,j) From (H6 ) we have kl kl −pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij + R0 Fij (ξ, p, t) < 0, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. (3.2) Set hij (λ) = kl λξij − pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij µ ¶ X X p p kl kl +R0 |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t)eλτ . B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Clearly, hij (λ), i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, are continuous functions on R. Since hij (0) < 0, dhij (λ) = ξij + λR0 dλ X C kl ∈Nr (i,j) p kl |Cij (t)|βij (t)eλτ ξkl > 0, GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 305 and hij (+∞) = +∞, hence hij (λ), i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, are strictly monotone increasing functions. Therefore, for any i ∈ {1, 2, · · · , n}, j ∈ {1, 2, · · · , m} and t ≥ 0, there is unique λ(t) such that kl λ(t)ξij − pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij µ ¶ X X p p kl kl λ(t)τ +R0 |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t)e = 0. B kl ∈Nr (i,j) Let C kl ∈Nr (i,j) ( λ∗ij µ +R0 ¯ ¯ kl = inf λ(t)¯¯λ(t)ξij − pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij t≥0 ¶ ¾ X X p p kl kl λ(t)τ |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t)e =0 . B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Obviously, λ∗ij ≥ 0, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. Now, we shall prove that λ∗ij > 0. Suppose this is not true. From (3.2), there exists a positive constant η such that ½ ¾ kl kl pµij (t0 )ξij − pAkl ij (t0 )ξij − R0 (p − 1)Dij (t0 )ξij − R0 Fij (ξ, p, t0 ) P inf ≥ η. p kl (t)|ξ t≥0,(i,j) ξij + 1.5τ R0 βij (t) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) |Cij kl Pick small ε > 0, then there exists t0 ≥ 0 such that 0 < λ∗ij (t0 ) < ε < η. Let us recall the inequality ex < 1 + 1.5x for sufficiently small x > 0. Then we obtain 0 = kl λ(t0 )ξij − pµij (t0 )ξij + pAkl ij (t0 )ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t0 )ξij µ ¶ X X p p kl kl +R0 |Bij (t0 )|ξkl αij (t0 ) + |Cij (t0 )|ξkl βij (t0 )eλ(t0 )τ B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl (t0 )ξij < εξij − pµij (t0 )ξij + + R0 (p − 1)Dij µ ¶ X X p p kl kl +R0 |Bij (t0 )|ξkl αij (t0 ) + |Cij (t0 )|ξkl βij (t0 )eετ pAkl ij (t0 )ξij B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl < ηξij − pµij (t0 )ξij + + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t0 )ξij ¶ µ X X p p kl kl |Bij (t0 )|ξkl αij (t0 ) + |Cij (t0 )|ξkl βij (t0 )(1 + 1.5ητ ) +R0 pAkl ij (t0 )ξij B kl ∈Nr (i,j) = C kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl kl −pµij (t0 )ξij + pAkl ij (t0 )ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t0 )ξij + R0 Fij (ξ, p, t0 ) 306 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang µ p +η ξij + 1.5τ R0 βij (t0 ) ¶ X kl |Cij (t0 )|ξkl C kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl kl −pµij (t0 )ξij + pAkl ij (t0 )ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t0 )ξij + R0 Fij (ξ, p, t0 ) kl kl pµij (t0 )ξij − pAkl ij (t0 )ξij − R0 (p − 1)Dij (t0 )ξij − R0 Fij (ξ, p, t0 ) P + p kl ξij + 1.5τ R0 βij (t0 ) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) |Cij (t0 )|ξkl ≤ µ p ξij + 1.5τ R0 βij (t0 ) × ¶ X kl (t0 )|ξkl |Cij = 0, C kl ∈Nr (i,j) which is a contradiction, and hence λ∗ij > 0, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. Let ² = min(i,j) {λ∗ij }. Obviously, kl hij (²) = ²ξij − pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij ¶ X X p p kl kl ²τ ≤ 0, |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t)e µ +R0 B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. (3.3) We choose a constant d > 1 such that pdξij e−²t ≥ 1, for t ∈ (−τ, 0], i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. It is obvious that |zij (t)|p ≤ kφ − φ∗ kp ≤ pdξij kφ − φ∗ kp e−²t , for t ∈ (−τ, 0] and i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, where kφ − φ∗ k is defined as that in Definition 1.1. Define a Lyapunov functional V (t) = (V11 (t), · · · , V1m (t), · · · , Vn1 (t), · · · , Vnm (t), )T by Vij (t) = p1 e²t |zij (t)|p , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. In view of (1.2) and (3.1), we obtain ½ d+ Vij (t) = |zij (t)|p−1 e²t sgn zij − [aij (t, xij (t)) − aij (t, x∗ij (t))] dt X kl + Bij (t)[fij (t, xkl (t))xij (t) − fij (t, x∗kl (t))x∗ij (t)] B kl ∈Nr (i,j) + X kl (t)[gij (t, xkl (t Cij ¾ − τkl (t)))xij (t) − gij (t, x∗kl (t − τkl (t)))x∗ij (t)] C kl ∈Nr (i,j) ² + e²t |zij (t)|p p ½ ≤ |zij (t)|p−1 e²t − µij (t)|zij (t)| + X B kl ∈Nr (i,j) £ kl |Bij (t)| |fij (t, xkl (t))||zij (t)| GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS X + ¤ +|fij (t, xkl (t)) − fij (t, x∗kl (t))||x∗ij (t)| £ kl |Cij (t)| |gij (t, xkl (t − τkl (t)))||zij (t)| C kl ∈Nr (i,j) +|gij (t, xkl (t − τkl (t))) − gij (t, x∗kl (t − τkl (t)))||x∗ij (t)| ½µ ≤ e²t ² − µij (t) + δij (t) p X B kl ∈N X +R0 X +R0 ² − pµij (t) + p kl |Bij (t)|αij (t)Vkl (t) + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) We claim that 1 Vij (t) = e²t |zij (t)|p ≤ dξij kφ−φ∗ kp , p ¾ kl |Cij (t)||zij (t)|p−1 βij (t)|zkl (t − τkl (t))| C kl ∈Nr (i,j) ≤ kl |Bij (t)||zij (t)|p−1 αij (t)|zkl (t)| r (i,j) µ µ ² + e²t |zij (t)|p p ¶ kl |Cij (t)| |zij (t)|p C kl ∈Nr (i,j) X +R0 ¾ ¤ X kl |Bij (t)| + γij (t) B kl ∈Nr (i,j) 307 ¶ + R0 (p − Vij (t) + ¶ p kl ²τ |Cij (t)|βij (t)e Vkl (t − τkl (t)) .(3.4) pAkl ij (t) X kl 1)Dij (t) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, for all t > 0. (3.5) Contrarily, there must exists some some i ∈ {1, 2, · · · , n}, j ∈ {1, 2, · · · , m} and e t > 0 such that d+ Vij (e t) Vij (e t) = dξij kφ − φ∗ kp , > 0 and Vij (t) ≤ dξij kφ − φ∗ kp , (3.6) dt ∀t ∈ (−τ, e t], i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. Together with (3.4) and (3.6), we obtain ½ d+ Vij (e t) ∗ p kl 0< ≤ dkφ − φ k ²ξij − pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij dt µ ¶¾ X X p p kl kl ²τ +R0 |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t)e . B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Hence, 0 < kl ²ξij − pµij (t)ξij + pAkl ij (t)ξij + R0 (p − 1)Dij (t)ξij ¶ µ X X p p kl kl |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t)e²τ , +R0 |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t) + B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) 308 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang which contradicts (3.3). Hence, (3.5) holds. It follows that ² 1 |xij (t) − x∗ij (t)| = |zij (t)| ≤ (pdξij ) p kφ − φ∗ ke− p t , ∀t > 0, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, 1 j = 1, 2, · · · , m. Let M = max(i,j) {(pdξij ) p + 1}. Then, we have ² |xij (t) − x∗ij (t)| ≤ M kφ − φ∗ ke− p t , ∀t > 0, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. In view of Definition 1.1, the ω-periodic solution x∗ (t) of the system (1.1) is globally exponentially stable. This completes the proof. Taking p = 1 in Theorem 3.1, we have the following corollary. Corollary 3.1. Assume (H1 )-(H3 ), (H5 ) and (H6 ) hold, where (H06 ) There are positive constants ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, such that ½ kl ¾ kl Aij (t)ξij + R0 Eij (ξ, t) max sup < 1, µij (t)ξij (i,j) 0≤t≤ω X X kl kl kl where, Eij (ξ, t) = |Bij (t)|ξkl αij (t)+ |Cij (t)|ξkl βij (t). B kl ∈Nr (i,j) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Then the system (1.1) has exactly one ω-periodic solution, which is globally exponentially stable. Remark 1. In [4], the authors studied the existence and exponential stability of the following SICNNs with delays and variable coefficients X kl x0ij (t) = −hij (t)xij (t) − Jij (t)eij (xkl (t))xij (t) − X J kl ∈Nr (i,j) Wijkl (t)qij (xkl (t − τkl (t)))xij (t) + Iij (t), (3.7) W kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl where hij (t) > 0, Jij (t) ≥ 0, Wijkl (t) ≥ 0 and Iij (t) are all continuous ωperiodic solutions. Theorem ∗ (Li[4]). Assume that the following conditions are satisfied: (F1 ) eij , qij ∈ C(R, R) are bounded on R, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m; (F2 ) there exist positive numbers µij and νij such that |eij (x) − eij (y)| ≤ µij |x − y|, |qij (x) − eij (y)| ≤ νij |x − y| for all x, y ∈ R, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m; GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 309 (F3 ) for each i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m hij − Mij · I ij − µij Γij X kl J ij − Nij J kl ∈Nr (i,j) X J kl ∈Nr (i,j) X kl W ij W kl ∈Nr (i,j) kl J ij + νij X kl W ij ¸ > 0. W kl ∈Nr (i,j) Then the system (3.7) has a unique ω-periodic solution which is globally exponentially stable, where kl kl kl (t)}, W ij = maxt∈[0,ω] {Wijkl (t)}, hij = mint∈[0,ω] {hij (t)}, J ij = maxt∈[0,ω] {Jij I ij = maxt∈[0,ω] {|Iij (t)|}, Mij = supu∈R {|eij (u)|}, Nij = supu∈R {|qij (u)|}. One can easily sees that (F1 )-(F3 ) are special cases of (H3 ), (H5 ) and (H06 ), respectively. Taking ξij = 1, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m in Corollary 3.1, it is obvious that Theorem 3.2 is direct corollary of Corollary 3.1. Remark 2. It is worth noting that our results Theorem 2.1, Theorem 3.1 and Corollary 3.1 are also applicable to SCINNs with distributed delays [5, 7, 8]. On the other hand, the results of this paper are also applicable to studying the existence and exponential stability of almost periodic solution for SCINNs with time-varying coefficients and delays. Consider the following SCINNs with time-varying coefficients and delays: x0ij (t) = xij (t) = −e aij (t)xij (t) − X ekl C kl eij C (t)e gij (t, xkl (t − τekl (t)))xij (t) + Ieij (t), (3.8) ϕij (t), t ∈ [0, ω] i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m. e kl (t) ≥ 0, geij (t, ·), τeij (t) ≥ 0, ϕij (t), Ieij (t) are all where t ≥ 0, e aij (t) > 0, C ij continuous almost periodic functions. We further assume that (F01 ) geij (t, u) ∈ C(R2 , R) are almost periodic about the first argument. There are continuous almost periodic solutions γ eij (t) such that γ eij (t) = supu∈R |e gij (t, u)|, i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m; (F02 ) there are non-negative continuous almost periodic solutions βeij (t) such that ¯ ¯ ¯ ge (t,u)−eg (t,v) ¯ ¯, for all u, v ∈ R, u 6= v, i = 1, 2, · · · , n βeij (t) = supu6=v ¯¯ ij u−vij ¯ j = 1, 2, · · · , m; 310 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang (F03 ) There are positive constants p ≥ 1 and ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, such that ½P e0 (p − 1)ξij + R e0 ξkl βep (t)) ¾ e kl γij (t)ξij + R ekl ∈Nr (i,j) Cij (t)(e ij C max sup < 1, e aij (t)ξij (i,j) t∈R ½ ¾Á I ij e e e where R0 = max(i,j) {ξij }R, R = max(i,j) ξij ea (1 − θ), I ij = ij aij (t), maxt∈R |Iij (t)|, e a = mint∈R e ½ij ¾ P ekl (t)| γ eij (t) Ce kl ∈N (i,j) |C ij r max(i,j) supt∈R = θ < 1. e aij (t) Let ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m be positive constants, ψ(t) be continuous almost periodic solution. Make the change of variables as that of (1.2). We have the unique almost periodic solution from system (3.8) ½Z y ψ(t) (t) = · X − t e− Rt s dij (u,ψij (u))du − −∞ ¸ ¾ −1 kl Cij (s)fij (s, ξkl ψkl (s − τkl (s)))ψij (s) + ξij Iij (s) ds . C kl ∈Nr (i,j) Similar to the proof of Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 3.1 of this paper, we obtain the following theorem. Theorem 3.2. Assume (F01 )-(F03 ) hold. Then the system (3.8) has exactly one almost periodic solution, which is globally exponentially stable. Take p = 1 in Theorem 3.3 and obtain the following corollary: Corollary 3.2. Assume (F01 ), (F02 ) hold and (F003 ) There are positive constants ξij , i = 1, 2, · · · , n, j = 1, 2, · · · , m, such that ½P e0 ξkl βeij (t)) ¾ e kl γij (t)ξij + R e kl ∈Nr (i,j) Cij (t)(e C max sup < 1, e aij (t)ξij (i,j) t∈R e0 is the same as that in (F0 ). where R 3 Then the system (3.8) has exactly one almost periodic solution, which is globally exponentially stable. Remark 3. From (3.3), it is obvious that the convergent index ² is more precise than the estimation of convergent index in [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. GENERAL RESULTS ON THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR GENERALIZED SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DELAYS 4 311 Application In this Section, we give an example to illustrate the obtained results. Consider the following generalized SICNNs with time-varying delays and coefficients X kl x0ij (t) = −aij (t, xij (t)) + Cij (t)gij (t, xkl (t − τkl (t)))xij (t) + Iij (t),(4.1) C kl ∈Nr (i,j) where r = 1. Take a11 (t, x) = a13 (t, x) = a21 (t, x) = a32 (t, x) = 4x + sin x + x sin t, a12 (t, x) = a23 (t, x) = a31 (t, x) = a33 (t, x) = 5x − sin x + x cos t, a22 (t, x) = 3x + cos x − x sin t, gij (t, x) = 0.1 sin x, τij (t) = (cos t)2 , and C11 (t) C12 (t) C13 (t) 0.2 cos t 0.4 sin t 0.3 cos t C21 (t) C22 (t) C23 (t) = 0.6 cos t 0 0.5 sin t , C31 (t) C32 (t) C33 (t) 0.5 sin t 0.6 cos t 0.5 sin t 1.5 cos t 2 sin t 2 cos t I11 (t) I12 (t) I13 (t) I21 (t) I22 (t) I23 (t) = 3.5 cos t 4 cos t 2 sin t . 5 sin t 3 cos t 4 sin t I31 (t) I32 (t) I33 (t) Then ω = 2π, µ11 (t) = µ13 (t) = µ21 (t) = µ32 (t) = 3 + sin t, µ12 (t) = µ23 (t) = µ31 (t) = µ33 (t) = 4 + cos t, µ22 (t) = = βij (t) = 0.1, P2 − sin t, γij (t) P kl kl (t) = 1.1| cos t|+ C (t)| = 0.8| cos t|+0.4| sin t|, |C C kl ∈Nr (1,2) 12 C kl ∈Nr (1,1) P P 11 kl kl (t)| = 0.9| sin t|, C kl ∈Nr (1,3) |C13 (t)| = 0.3| cos t|+0.9| sin t|, C kl ∈Nr (2,1) |C21 P P kl 1.4| cos t|+0.9| sin t|, C kl ∈Nr (2,2) |C22 (t)| = 1.7| cos t|+1.9| sin t|, C kl ∈Nr (2,3) P kl kl (t)| = 1.2| cos t| + 0.5| sin t|, (t)| = 0.9| cos t| + 1.4| sin t|, C kl ∈Nr (3,1) |C31 |C23 P P kl kl (t)| = 1.2| cos t|+1.5| sin t|, |C 32 C kl ∈Nr (3,3) |C33 (t)| = 0.6| cos t|+ C kl ∈Nr (3,2) | sin t|. Take ξij = 1, i, j = 1, 2, 3. Computing by MATLAB, we have θ ≈ 0.22358 < 1, R0 ≈ 2.1466, and κ ≈ 0.7035 < 1. It’s easy to check that all the conditions in Corollary 3.1 are hold. Therefore, system (4.1) has a unique 2π-periodic solution x∗ (t) with kx∗ k ≤ R0 , which is globally exponentially stable. The numerical simulations with the following initial conditions: (x11 (s), x12 (s), x13 (s), x21 (s), x22 (s), x23 (s), x31 (s), x32 (s), x33 (s))T = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)T and (x11 (s), x12 (s), x13 (s), x21 (s), x22 (s), x23 (s), x31 (s), x32 (s), x33 (s))T = (−1, −2, −3, −4, −5, −6, −7, −8, −9)T 312 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang for s ∈ [−1, 0]. For the trajectories of xij (t), i, j = 1, 2, 3, please see the below Figure. 10 8 6 4 solution x 2 0 −2 −4 −6 −8 −10 0 1 2 3 4 5 time t 6 7 8 9 10 Fig. : Trajectories of xij (t), i, j = 1, 2, 3 for system (4.1). Remark 4. The system (4.1) is a simple generalized SICNN with delays and time-varying coefficients. 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Department of Mathematics Honghe University Mengzi Yunnan 661100, China, Email: xinsongyang@163.com Department of Applied Mathematics, College of Mathematics and Computing Science, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410076, China Email: cxiahuang@126.com 314 Xinsong Yang, Chuangxia Huang