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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2013, Article ID 683091, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/683091
Research Article
Almost Periodic Solutions for Wilson-Cowan Type Model with
Time-Varying Delays
Shasha Xie and Zhenkun Huang
School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Zhenkun Huang; hzk974226@jmu.edu.cn
Received 9 October 2012; Accepted 26 December 2012
Academic Editor: Junli Liu
Copyright © 2013 S. Xie and Z. Huang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Wilson-Cowan model of neuronal population with time-varying delays is considered in this paper. Some sufficient conditions
for the existence and delay-based exponential stability of a unique almost periodic solution are established. The approaches are
based on constructing Lyapunov functionals and the well-known Banach contraction mapping principle. The results are new, easily
checkable, and complement existing periodic ones.
1. Introduction
Consider a well-known Wilson-Cowan type model [1, 2] with
time-varying delays
𝑑𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) + [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
𝜏𝑃 (𝑡), 𝜏𝑁(𝑡) correspond to the transmission time-varying
delays.
It is interesting to revisit Wilson-Cowan system on the
following points.
(1)
(i) The Wilson-Cowan model has a realistic biological
background which describes interactions between
excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons [1–
3]. It has extensive application such as pattern analysis
and image processing [4, 5].
where 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡), 𝑋𝑁(𝑡) represent the proportion of excitatory
and inhibitory neurons firing per unit time at the instant
𝑡, respectively. 𝑟𝑃 and 𝑟𝑁 are related to the duration of the
1
refractory period, 𝑘𝑃 and 𝑘𝑁 are constants. 𝑤𝑃1 , 𝑤𝑁
, 𝑤𝑃2 , and
2
𝑤𝑁 are the strengths of connections between the populations.
𝐼𝑃 (𝑡), 𝐼𝑁(𝑡) are the external inputs to the excitatory and
the inhibitory populations. 𝐺(⋅) is the response function of
neuronal activity and it is always assumed to be sigmoid type.
(ii) There exists rich dynamical behavior in WilsonCowan model. Theoretical results about stable limit
cycles, equilibria, chaos, and oscillatory activity have
been reported in [2, 3, 6–9]. Recently, Decker and
Noonburg [8] reported new results about the existence of three periodic solutions when each neuron
was stimulated by periodical inputs. However, under
time-varying (periodic or almost periodic) inputs,
Wilson-Cowan model can have more complex state
space and coexistence of divergent solutions and local
stable solutions which could not be easily estimated
by its boundary. To see this, we can refer to Figure 1
for the phase portrait of solutions of the following
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
1
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)] ,
−𝑤𝑁
𝑑𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) + [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
2
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)] ,
−𝑤𝑁
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(𝐻2 ) The quadratic equation (𝐾 + 𝑅𝑥)(𝐼 + 𝑊𝑥) = 𝑥 has a
positive solution 𝛿, where
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40
30
20
1
2
𝑊 = max{𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 + 𝑤𝑁
) , 𝐿 (𝑤𝑃2 + 𝑤𝑁
)} ,
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0
𝐾 = max{𝑘𝑃 , 𝑘𝑁} ,
−10
𝑅 = max{𝑟𝑃 , 𝑟𝑁} ,
(5)
⊤
}.
𝐼 = max {𝐿𝐼𝑃⊤ , 𝐿𝐼𝑁
−20
−30
−40
−50
−80 −60 −40 −20
0
20
40
60
80
100
(𝐻3 ) 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡), 𝜏𝑁(𝑡) are bounded and continuously differentiable with 0 ≤ 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡) ≤ 𝜏𝑃⊤ ,
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Figure 1: Coexistence of divergent and local stable solutions of (2)
with almost periodic inputs.
Wilson-Cowan type model with 𝐺(𝑧) = tanh(𝑧) and
almost periodic inputs [10–12]:
𝑑𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) + [1 − 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
× 𝐺 [𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) − 𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) + 5 sin√2𝑡] ,
𝑑𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) + [1 − 𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
(2)
× 𝐺 [𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) − 𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) + 0.5 cos 𝑡 sin 𝑡] .
Throughout this paper, we always assume that 𝑘𝑃 , 𝑘𝑁, 𝑟𝑃 ,
1
2
𝑟𝑁, 𝑤𝑃1 , 𝑤𝑃2 , 𝑤𝑁
, and 𝑤𝑁
are positive constants, 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡), 𝜏𝑁(𝑡),
𝐼𝑃 (𝑡), and 𝐼𝑁(𝑡) are almost periodic functions [12], and set
𝑡∈R
󵄨
󵄨
𝐼𝑃⊤ = sup 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨 ,
𝑡∈R
⊤
= sup𝜏𝑁 (𝑡) ,
𝜏𝑁
𝑡∈R
󵄨
󵄨
⊤
𝐼𝑁
= sup 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨 .
̇ (𝑡) > 0
1 − 𝜏𝑁
(3)
1 − 𝜏𝑃̇ (𝑡) > 0,
for 𝑡 ∈ 𝑅.
(6)
For for all 𝑢 = (𝑢1 , 𝑢2 ) ∈ R2 , we define the norm ‖𝑢‖ =
max{|𝑢1 |, |𝑢2 |}. Let 𝐵 := {𝜓 | 𝜓 = (𝜓1 , 𝜓1 )}, where 𝜓 is an
almost periodic function on R2 . For all 𝜓 ∈ 𝐵, if we define
induced nodule ‖𝜓‖𝐵 = sup𝑡∈R ‖𝜓(𝑡)‖, then 𝐵 is a Banach
space. The initial conditions of system (1) are of the form
𝑋𝑃 (𝑠) = 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠) ,
(iii) Few works reported almost periodicity of WilsonCowan type model in the literature. Under almost
periodic inputs, whether there exists a unique almost
periodic solution of (1) which is stable? How to estimate its located boundary? Revealing these results can
give a significant insight into the complex dynamical
structure of Wilson-Cowan type model.
𝜏𝑃⊤ = sup𝜏𝑃 (𝑡) ,
⊤
0 ≤ 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡) ≤ 𝜏𝑁
,
𝑋𝑁 (𝑠) = 𝜓𝑁 (𝑠) ,
𝑠 ∈ [−𝜏, 0] , (7)
⊤
} and 𝜓 = (𝜓𝑃 , 𝜓𝑁) ∈ 𝐵.
where 𝜏 = max{𝜏𝑃⊤ , 𝜏𝑁
Definition 1 (see [12]). Let 𝑢(𝑡) : R → R𝑛 be continuous.
𝑢(𝑡) is said to be almost periodic on R if, for any 𝜀 > 0, it
is possible to find a real number 𝑙 = 𝑙(𝜀) > 0, and for any
interval with length 𝑙(𝜀), there exists a number 𝛿 = 𝛿(𝜀) in
this interval such that |𝑢(𝑡 + 𝛿) − 𝑢(𝑡)| < 𝜀, for all 𝑡 ∈ R.
The remaining part of this paper is organized as follows.
In Section 2, we will derive sufficient conditions for checking
the existence of almost periodic solutions. In Section 3,
we present delay-based exponential stability of the unique
almost periodic solution of system (1). In Section 4, we
will give an example to illustrate our results obtained in
the preceding sections. Concluding remarks are given in
Section 5.
𝑡∈R
2. Existence of Almost Periodic Solutions
Moreover, we need some basic assumptions in this paper.
(𝐻1 ) 𝐺(0) = 0, sup𝑣∈R |𝐺(𝑣)| ⩽ 𝐵𝑠 and there exists an 𝐿 >
0 such that
|𝐺 (𝑢) − 𝐺 (𝑣)| ⩽ 𝐿 |𝑢 − 𝑣|
for ∀𝑢, 𝑣 ∈ R.
(4)
Theorem 2. Suppose that (𝐻1 ) and (𝐻2 ) hold. If 𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅(𝐵𝑠 +
𝛿𝑊) < 1, then there exists a unique almost periodic solution of
system (1) in the region
󵄩 󵄩
𝐵∗ = {𝜓 | 𝜓 ∈ 𝐵, 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 ≤ 𝛿} .
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Proof. For for all 𝜓 = (𝜓𝑃 , 𝜓𝑁) ∈ 𝐵∗ , we consider the almost
𝜓
𝜓
periodic solution 𝑋𝜓 (𝑡) = (𝑋𝑃 (𝑡), 𝑋𝑁(𝑡)) of the following
almost periodic differential equations:
󵄨
󵄨
≤ sup [𝑘𝑃 + 𝑟𝑃 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝜓𝑃 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨]
𝑡∈R
󵄨
× 𝐺 󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨[𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
𝑑𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) + [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝜓𝑃 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
󵄨
1
−𝑤𝑁
𝜓𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)]󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄩 󵄩
≤ (𝑘𝑃 + 𝑟𝑃 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 )
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
󵄩 󵄩
1 󵄩
󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩 + 𝐼⊤ )
× 𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 + 𝑤𝑁
󵄩 󵄩𝐵 𝑃
1
𝜓𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)] ,
−𝑤𝑁
𝑑𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) + [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁𝜓𝑁 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
(9)
󵄩
1 󵄩
) 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 + 𝐿𝐼𝑃⊤ ) .
× (𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 + 𝑤𝑁
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 𝜓𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
(11)
2
𝜓𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)] .
−𝑤𝑁
By similar estimation, we can get
By almost periodicity of 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡), 𝜏𝑁(𝑡), 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡), and 𝐼𝑁(𝑡) and
Theorem 3.4 in [12] or [10], (9) has a unique almost periodic
solution
𝜓
𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)
𝑡
−∞
×
󵄩
2 󵄩
⊤
× (𝐿 (𝑤𝑃2 + 𝑤𝑁
) 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 + 𝐿𝐼𝑁
).
(12)
𝑡
−∞
󵄩
󵄨
󵄨 󵄨
󵄨
󵄩󵄩
󵄩󵄩𝐹 (𝜓)󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 = sup {󵄨󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑃 (𝜓)󵄨󵄨󵄨 , 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑁 (𝜓)󵄨󵄨󵄨}
exp(− (𝑡 − 𝑠)) [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠)]
𝑡∈R
𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠
− 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
1
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠)] 𝑑𝑠,
−𝑤𝑁
𝜓
󵄨󵄨
󵄩 󵄩
󵄨
󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑁 (𝜓)󵄨󵄨󵄨 ≤ (𝑘𝑁 + 𝑟𝑁󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 )
Therefore, by the above estimations and (𝐻2 ), we get
=∫
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) = ∫
󵄩 󵄩
≤ (𝑘𝑃 + 𝑟𝑃 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 )
󵄩 󵄩
󵄩 󵄩
≤ (𝐾 + 𝑅󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 ) (𝑊󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 + 𝐼)
≤ (𝐾 + 𝑅𝛿) (𝑊𝛿 + 𝐼) = 𝛿,
(10)
exp(− (𝑡 − 𝑠)) [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁𝜓𝑁 (𝑠)]
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
2
−𝑤𝑁
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑁 (𝑠)] 𝑑𝑠.
Define a mapping 𝐹 : 𝐵∗ → 𝐵 by setting 𝐹(𝜓)(𝑡) =
(𝐹𝑃 (𝜓)(𝑡), 𝐹𝑁(𝜓)(𝑡)) = 𝑋𝜓 (𝑡), for all 𝜓 ∈ 𝐵∗ . Now, we prove
that 𝐹 is a self-mapping from 𝐵∗ to 𝐵∗ . From (10) and (𝐻1 ),
we obtain
which implies that 𝐹(𝜓) ∈ 𝐵∗ . So, the mapping 𝐹 is selfmapping from 𝐵∗ to 𝐵∗ . Next, we prove that 𝐹 is a contraction
mapping in the region 𝐵∗ . For all 𝜓, 𝜙 ∈ 𝐵∗ , by (10), we have
󵄨
󵄨󵄨
󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑃 (𝜓) (𝑡) − 𝐹𝑃 (𝜙) (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄨󵄨 𝑡
󵄨
≤ sup 󵄨󵄨󵄨∫ exp (− (𝑡 − 𝑠)) [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠)]
𝑡∈R 󵄨󵄨 −∞
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
1
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠)] 𝑑𝑠
−𝑤𝑁
󵄨󵄨
󵄨
󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑃 (𝜓) (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄨󵄨 𝑡
󵄨
≤ sup 󵄨󵄨󵄨∫ exp (− (𝑡 − 𝑠)) [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠)]
𝑡∈R 󵄨󵄨 −∞
×
(13)
𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠
− 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
󵄨󵄨
󵄨
1
−𝑤𝑁
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠)] 𝑑𝑠󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄨󵄨
−∫
𝑡
−∞
exp (− (𝑡 − 𝑠)) [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠)]
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
󵄨󵄨
󵄨
1
𝜙𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠)] 𝑑𝑠󵄨󵄨󵄨 ,
−𝑤𝑁
󵄨󵄨
(14)
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which leads to
From (15) and (16), we have
󵄩
󵄩󵄩
󵄩󵄩𝐹 (𝜓) − 𝐹 (𝜓)󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵
󵄨
󵄨 󵄨
󵄨
= sup {󵄨󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑃 (𝜓) − 𝐹𝑃 (𝜓)󵄨󵄨󵄨 , 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑁 (𝜓) − 𝐹𝑁 (𝜓)󵄨󵄨󵄨}
󵄨
󵄨󵄨
󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑃 (𝜓) (𝑡) − 𝐹𝑃 (𝜙) (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨
≤ sup ∫
𝑡∈R
𝑡
−∞
exp (− (𝑡 − 𝑠))
𝑡∈R
󵄩
󵄩
≤ 𝐾𝑊 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩
󵄨
1
× [𝑘𝑃 𝐿 󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠)) − 𝑤𝑁
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠))
−𝑤𝑃1 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠
−
1
𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))+𝑤𝑁
𝜙𝑁 (𝑠
󵄨
+ 𝑟𝑃 󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨𝜓𝑃 (𝑠) 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
−
1
𝑤𝑁
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠
Since 𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐵𝑠 + 𝑅𝛿𝑊 ∈ (0, 1), it is clear that the mapping 𝐹
is a contraction. Therefore the mapping 𝐹 possesses a unique
fixed point 𝑋∗ ∈ 𝐵∗ such that 𝐹𝑋∗ = 𝑋∗ . By (9), 𝑋∗ is
an almost periodic solution of system (1) in 𝐵∗ . The proof is
complete.
+𝐼𝑃 (𝑠)]
− 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠) 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
−
Remark 3. Obviously, quadratic curve C(𝑣) := 𝑅𝑊𝑣2 +(𝐾𝑊+
𝑅𝐼 − 1)𝑣 + 𝐾𝐼 satisfies with C(0) ≥ 0. So, Δ := (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼 −
1)2 − 4𝑅𝑊𝐾𝐼 > 0 and 𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼 < 1 guarantees the existence
of 𝛿 in (𝐻2 ) and 𝛿 lies in the following interval:
− 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠))
󵄨
+𝐼𝑃 (𝑠) ] 󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨 ] 𝑑𝑠
󵄨
󵄨
󵄨
󵄨
1
≤ 𝑘𝑃 𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 sup 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝜓𝑃 (𝑡) − 𝜙𝑃 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨 + 𝑤𝑁
sup 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝜓𝑁 (𝑡) − 𝜙𝑁 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨)
𝑡∈R
+ sup ∫
𝑡∈R
𝑡
−∞
󵄩
󵄩
󵄩
󵄩
+ 𝑅 (𝐵𝑠 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩 + 𝛿𝑊 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩)
󵄩
󵄩
= (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐵𝑠 + 𝑅𝛿𝑊) 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩 .
󵄨
− 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠))󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨
− 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠))
1
𝜙𝑁 (𝑠
𝑤𝑁
𝑡∈R
󵄨
× [󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨𝜓𝑃 (𝑠) 𝐺 (𝑤𝑃1 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
1 − 𝐾𝑊 − 𝑅𝐼 − √Δ 1 − 𝐾𝑊 − 𝑅𝐼 + √Δ
,
].
2𝑅𝑊
2𝑅𝑊
(18)
̂2 ) 𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼 < 1 − 2√𝐾𝑊𝑅𝐼,𝑅𝐵𝑠 < (1 − (𝐾𝑊 − 𝑅𝐼))/2,
(𝐻
1
𝜓𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠))
−𝑤𝑁
and hence it leads to a parameter-based result.
− 𝜓𝑃 (𝑠) 𝐺 (𝑤𝑃1 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
1
− 𝑤𝑁
𝜙𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠))
󵄨
+𝐼𝑃 (𝑠))󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄨
+ 󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨𝜓𝑃 (𝑠) 𝐺 (𝑤𝑃1 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
1
𝜙𝑁 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑠)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠))
− 𝑤𝑁
− 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠) 𝐺 (𝑤𝑃1 𝜙𝑃 (𝑠 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑠))
󵄨
1
𝜙𝑁 (𝑠) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑠))󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨]|𝑑𝑠
− 𝑤𝑁
󵄩
1 󵄩
≤ 𝑘𝑃 𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 + 𝑤𝑁
) 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵
̂2 ) hold. Then there
Corollary 4. Suppose that (𝐻1 ) and (𝐻
exists a unique almost periodic solution of system (1) in the
region 𝐵∗ = {𝜓 | 𝜓 ∈ 𝐵, ‖𝜓‖𝐵 ≤ (1 − (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼))/2𝑅𝑊}.
3. Delay-Based Stability of
the Almost Periodic Solution
In this section, we establish locally exponential stability of the
unique almost periodic solution of system (1) in the region
𝐵∗ , which is delay dependent.
Theorem 5. Suppose that (𝐻1 )–(𝐻3 ) hold. If 𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅(𝐵𝑠 +
𝛿𝑊) < 1 and there exist constants ℓ1 > 0, ℓ2 > 0 such that
(1 − 𝑟𝑃 𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ1 > sup
(15)
𝑡∈R
𝐶𝑃
,
1 − 𝜏𝑃̇ (𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡))
𝐶𝑁
,
−1
̇
1
−
𝜏
𝑡∈R
𝑁 (𝜐𝑁 (𝑡))
(19)
(1 − 𝑟𝑁𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ2 > sup
By similar argument, we can get
󵄨󵄨
󵄨
󵄨󵄨𝐹𝑁 (𝜓) (𝑡) − 𝐹𝑁 (𝜓) (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄩
󵄩
2 󵄩
≤ 𝑘𝑁𝐿 (𝑤𝑃2 + 𝑤𝑁
) 󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵
󵄩
󵄩
󵄩
2 󵄩
+ 𝑟𝑁 (𝐵𝑠 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 + 𝛿𝐿 (𝑤𝑃2 + 𝑤𝑁
) 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 ) .
[
By Theorem 2, we know that the unique almost periodic
solution depends on 𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅(𝐵𝑠 + 𝛿𝑊) < 1. Choosing
𝛿 = (1 − (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼))/2𝑅𝑊, we get a simple assumption as
follows:
exp (− (𝑡 − 𝑠)) 𝑟𝑃
󵄩
󵄩
󵄩
1 󵄩
+ 𝑟𝑃 (𝐵𝑠 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 + 𝛿𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 + 𝑤𝑁
) 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜙󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 ) .
(17)
(16)
where 𝐶𝑃 := 𝐿[(𝑘𝑃 + 𝑟𝑃 𝛿)ℓ1 𝑤𝑃1 + (𝑘𝑁 + 𝑟𝑁𝛿)ℓ2 𝑤𝑃2 ] and 𝐶𝑁 :=
1
2
−1
+ (𝑘𝑁 + 𝑟𝑁𝛿)ℓ2 𝑤𝑁
], 𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡) and 𝜐𝑁
(𝑡) are
𝐿[(𝑘𝑃 + 𝑟𝑃 𝛿)ℓ1 𝑤𝑁
the inverse functions of 𝜐𝑃 (𝑡) = 𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡) and 𝜐𝑁(𝑡) = 𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁(𝑡),
then system (1) has exactly one almost periodic solution 𝑋∗ (𝑡)
in the region 𝐵∗ which is locally exponentially stable.
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Proof. From Theorem 2, system (1) has a unique almost
periodic solution 𝑋∗ (𝑡) ∈ 𝐵∗ . Let 𝑋(𝑡) = (𝑋𝑃 (𝑡), 𝑋𝑁(𝑡))
be an arbitrary solution of system (1) with initial value 𝜓 =
(𝜓𝑃 , 𝜓𝑁) ∈ 𝐵∗ . Set 𝑋(𝑡) = 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) − 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡), 𝑌(𝑡) = 𝑋𝑁(𝑡) −
∗
(𝑡). By system (1), we get
𝑋𝑁
Calculating the upper right derivative of 𝑉(𝑡) along system
(1), one has
𝐷+ 𝑉 (𝑡)
≤ 𝜆 [ℓ1 |𝑋 (𝑡)| + ℓ2 |𝑌 (𝑡)|] 𝑒𝜆𝑡
𝑑𝑋 (𝑡)
= −𝑋 (𝑡)
𝑑𝑡
+ 𝑒𝜆𝑡 ℓ1 [− |𝑋 (𝑡)|
󵄨
+ 󵄨󵄨󵄨[𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 (𝑋 (𝑡) + 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡))]
+ [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 (𝑋 (𝑡) + 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡))]
×
𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 (𝑋 (𝑡
− 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)) +
𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 (𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)) + 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)))
− 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)))
1
∗
(𝑌 (𝑡−𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝑋𝑁
(𝑡−𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)))
− 𝑤𝑁
1
∗
(𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝑋𝑁
(𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))) 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)]
−𝑤𝑁
+𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)]
− [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡)]
− [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡)]
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
1 ∗
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)] ,
−𝑤𝑁
󵄨
1 ∗
−𝑤𝑁
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)]󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨]
𝑑𝑌 (𝑡)
= −𝑌 (𝑡)
𝑑𝑡
+ 𝑒𝜆𝑡 ℓ2 [− |𝑌 (𝑡)|
󵄨
∗
+ 󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨 [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁 (𝑌 (𝑡) + 𝑋𝑁
(𝑡))]
∗
+ [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁 (𝑌 (𝑡) + 𝑋𝑁
(𝑡))]
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 (𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)) + 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)))
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 (𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)) + 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)))
2
∗
−𝑤𝑁
(𝑌 (𝑡−𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))+𝑋𝑁
(𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)))+𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)]
2
∗
(𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝑋𝑁
(𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)))
− 𝑤𝑁
∗
− [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁𝑋𝑁
(𝑡)]
+𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)]
∗
− [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁𝑋𝑁
(𝑡)]
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 𝑋𝑃∗ (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
2 ∗
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)] .
−𝑤𝑁
󵄨
2 ∗
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)]󵄨󵄨󵄨󵄨]
−𝑤𝑁
(20)
Construct the auxiliary functions 𝐹𝑃 (𝑢), 𝐹𝑁(𝑢) defined on
[0, +∞) as follows:
⊤
𝐶𝑃 𝑒𝑢𝜏𝑃
,
̇ (𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡))
𝑡∈R 1 − 𝜏𝑃
⊤
(21)
One can easily show that 𝐹𝑃 (𝑢), 𝐹𝑁(𝑢) are well defined
and continuous. Assumption (19) implies that 𝐹𝑃 (0) < 0,
𝐹𝑃 (𝑢) → +∞ as 𝑢 → +∞ and 𝐹𝑁(0) < 0, 𝐹𝑁(𝑢) → +∞ as
𝑢 → +∞. It follows that there exists a common 𝜆 > 0 such
that 𝐹𝑃 (𝜆) < 0 and 𝐹𝑁(𝜆) < 0.
Consider the Lyapunov functional
𝑡
𝑡−𝜏𝑃 (𝑡)
+∫
𝑡
𝑡−𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)
⊤
𝐶𝑃
|𝑋 (𝑠)| 𝑒𝜆(𝑠+𝜏𝑃 ) 𝑑𝑠
1 − 𝜏𝑃̇ (𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑠))
⊤
𝐶𝑁
|𝑌 (𝑠)| 𝑒𝜆(𝑠+𝜏𝑁 ) 𝑑𝑠.
−1
̇ (𝜐𝑁 (𝑠))
1 − 𝜏𝑁
+
⊤
𝐶𝑁
|𝑌 (𝑡)| 𝑒𝜆(𝑡+𝜏𝑁 )
−1
̇
1 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝜐𝑁 (𝑡))
󵄨
󵄨
⊤
− 𝐶𝑁 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨 exp [𝜆 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡) + 𝜏𝑁
)] ,
(23)
which leads to
𝐷+ 𝑉 (𝑡)
≤ [(𝜆 − 1) ℓ1 𝑒𝜆𝑡 |𝑋 (𝑡)| + (𝜆 − 1) ℓ2 𝑒𝜆𝑡 |𝑌 (𝑡)|]
󵄨
󵄨
+ 𝑒𝜆𝑡 ℓ1 [𝑘𝑃 𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨
𝑉 (𝑡) = [ℓ1 |𝑋 (𝑡)| + ℓ2 |𝑌 (𝑡)|] 𝑒𝜆𝑡
+∫
⊤
𝐶𝑃
|𝑋 (𝑡)| 𝑒𝜆(𝑡+𝜏𝑃 )
−1
1 − 𝜏𝑃̇ (𝜐𝑃 (𝑡))
󵄨
󵄨
− 𝐶𝑃 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨 exp [𝜆 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡) + 𝜏𝑃⊤ )]
𝐹𝑃 (𝑢) := (𝑢 − 1 + 𝑟𝑃 𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ1 + sup
𝐶𝑁𝑒𝑢𝜏𝑁
.
𝐹𝑁 (𝑢) := (𝑢 − 1 + 𝑟𝑁𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ2 + sup
−1
̇ (𝜐𝑁
(𝑡))
𝑡∈R 1 − 𝜏𝑁
+
(22)
󵄨
1 󵄨󵄨
+ 𝑤𝑁
󵄨󵄨𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨) + 𝑟𝑃 |𝑋 (𝑡)| 𝐵𝑠
󵄨
󵄨
+ 𝑟𝑃 𝛿𝐿 (𝑤𝑃1 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨
󵄨
1 󵄨󵄨
+𝑤𝑁
󵄨󵄨𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨)]
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󵄨
󵄨
+ 𝑒𝜆𝑡 ℓ2 [𝑘𝑁𝐿 (𝑤𝑃2 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨
̂2 ), and (𝐻3 ) hold. If there
Corollary 6. Suppose that (𝐻1 ), (𝐻
exist constants ℓ1 > 0, ℓ2 > 0 such that
󵄨
2 󵄨󵄨
+ 𝑤𝑁
󵄨󵄨𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨)
+ 𝑟𝑁 |𝑌 (𝑡)| 𝐵𝑠 +
󵄨
𝑟𝑁𝛿𝐿 (𝑤𝑃2 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑋 (𝑡
(1 − 𝑟𝑃 𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ1 > sup
󵄨
− 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨
1 − 𝜏𝑃̇ (𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡))
𝑡∈R
󵄨
2 󵄨󵄨
+𝑤𝑁
󵄨󵄨𝑌 (𝑡−𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨)]
⊤
𝐶𝑃
+
|𝑋 (𝑡)| 𝑒𝜆(𝑡+𝜏𝑃 )
1 − 𝜏𝑃̇ (𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡))
(1 − 𝑟𝑁𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ2 > sup
,
1
2
𝐿 (𝛼𝑃 ℓ1 𝑤𝑁
+ 𝛼𝑁ℓ2 𝑤𝑁
)
𝑡∈R
−1
̇ (𝜐𝑁
1 − 𝜏𝑁
(𝑡))
(28)
,
where
󵄨
󵄨
− 𝐶𝑃 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑋 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨 𝑒𝜆𝑡
+
𝐿 (𝛼𝑃 ℓ1 𝑤𝑃1 + 𝛼𝑁ℓ2 𝑤𝑃2 )
𝛼𝑃 := 𝑘𝑃 + 𝑟𝑃
⊤
𝐶𝑁
|𝑌 (𝑡)| 𝑒𝜆(𝑡+𝜏𝑁 )
−1
̇ (𝜐𝑁 (𝑡))
1 − 𝜏𝑁
1 − (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼)
,
2𝑅𝑊
𝛼𝑁 := 𝑘𝑁 + 𝑟𝑁
󵄨
󵄨
− 𝐶𝑁 󵄨󵄨󵄨𝑌 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡))󵄨󵄨󵄨 𝑒𝜆𝑡
(29)
1 − (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼)
,
2𝑅𝑊
−1
𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡) and 𝜐𝑁
(𝑡) are defined as Theorem 5, then system (1) has
exactly one almost periodic solution 𝑋∗ (𝑡) in the region
⊤
𝐶𝑃 𝑒𝜆𝜏𝑃
≤ [(𝜆 − 1 + 𝑟𝑃 𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ1 + sup
]
̇ (𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡))
𝑡∈R 1 − 𝜏𝑃
1 − (𝐾𝑊 + 𝑅𝐼)
󵄩 󵄩
𝐵∗ = {𝜓 | 𝜓 ∈ 𝐵, 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓󵄩󵄩󵄩𝐵 ≤
},
2𝑅𝑊
× 𝑒𝜆𝑡 |𝑋 (𝑡)|
(30)
which is locally exponentially stable.
⊤
𝐶𝑁𝑒𝜆𝜏𝑁
+ [(𝜆 − 1 + 𝑟𝑁𝐵𝑠 ) ℓ2 + sup
]
−1
̇ (𝜐𝑁
(𝑡))
𝑡∈R 1 − 𝜏𝑁
4. An Example
In this section, we give an example to demonstrate the results
obtained in previous sections. Consider a Wilson-Cowan
type model with time-varying delays as follows:
× 𝑒𝜆𝑡 |𝑌 (𝑡)|
≤ −𝑐1 [|𝑋 (𝑡)| + |𝑌 (𝑡)|] 𝑒𝜆𝑡 ,
(24)
𝑑𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) + [𝑘𝑃 − 𝑟𝑃 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃1 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
where 𝑐1 := −(1/2) max{𝐹𝑃 (𝜆), 𝐹𝑁(𝜆)} > 0. We have from the
above that 𝑉(𝑡) ≤ 𝑉(𝑡0 ) and
min {ℓ1 , ℓ2 } 𝑒𝜆𝑡 (|𝑋 (𝑡)| + |𝑌 (𝑡)|) ≤ 𝑉 (𝑡) ≤ 𝑉 (0) ,
𝑡 ≥ 0.
(25)
1
−𝑤𝑁
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡)] ,
𝑑𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)
= −𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) + [𝑘𝑁 − 𝑟𝑁𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)]
𝑑𝑡
Note that
(31)
× 𝐺 [𝑤𝑃2 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡))
⊤
𝐶𝑃
𝑉 (0) = [(ℓ1 + ℓ2 ) + 𝜏𝑃⊤ sup
𝑒𝜆𝜏𝑃
−1
̇ (𝜐𝑃 (𝑠))
𝑠∈[−𝜏𝑃⊤ ,0] 1 − 𝜏𝑃
[
2
−𝑤𝑁
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡 − 𝜏𝑁 (𝑡)) + 𝐼𝑁 (𝑡)] ,
⊤
𝐶𝑁
󵄩
󵄩
⊤
+𝜏𝑁
sup
𝑒𝜆𝜏𝑁 ] 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜓∗ 󵄩󵄩󵄩 ,
−1
̇
1
−
𝜏
(𝜐
(𝑠))
⊤
𝑁 𝑁
𝑠∈[−𝜏𝑁 ,0]
]
(26)
where 𝜓∗ (𝑠) = 𝑋∗ (𝑠), 𝑠 ∈ [−𝜏, 0]. Then there exists a positive
constant 𝑀 > 1 such that
󵄩
󵄨
󵄨󵄨
∗
∗ 󵄩 −𝜆𝑡
󵄨󵄨𝑋𝑃 (𝑡) − 𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨 ≤ 𝑀 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜓 󵄩󵄩󵄩 𝑒 ,
󵄩
󵄨
󵄨󵄨
∗
∗ 󵄩 −𝜆𝑡
󵄨󵄨𝑋𝑁 (𝑡) − 𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)󵄨󵄨󵄨 ≤ 𝑀 󵄩󵄩󵄩𝜓 − 𝜓 󵄩󵄩󵄩 𝑒 .
(27)
The proof is complete.
Set 𝛿 = (1−(𝐾𝑊+𝑅𝐼))/2𝑅𝑊. It follows from Corollary 4
and Theorem 5 the following.
1
=
where 𝑘𝑃 = 𝑘𝑁 = 1, 𝑟𝑃 = 𝑟𝑁 = 0.01, 𝑤𝑃1 = 𝑤𝑃2 = 𝑤𝑁
2
𝑤𝑁 = 0.1, 𝜏𝑃 (𝑡) = 𝜏𝑁(𝑡) = 0.1𝑡 + 10, 𝐼𝑃 (𝑡) = 7 sin √7𝑡, 𝐺(𝑣) =
tanh(𝑣), and 𝐼𝑁(𝑡) = 7 cos √2𝑡. It is easy to calculate that
𝐾 = 1,
𝑊 = 0.2,
𝑅 = 0.01,
−1
𝜐𝑃−1 (𝑡) = 𝜐𝑁
(𝑡) =
𝐿 = 𝐵𝑠 = 1,
(𝑡 + 10)
,
0.9
𝐼 = 7,
(32)
𝛿 = 182.5.
̂2 ) hold. By Corollary 4, (31)
It is easy to check that (𝐻1 ) and (𝐻
has a unique almost periodic solution 𝑋∗ (𝑡) in region 𝐵∗ =
{𝜓 | 𝜓 ∈ 𝐵, ‖𝜓‖𝐵 ≤ 182.5}. Setting ℓ1 = ℓ2 = 0.5, we can
check that (𝐻3 ) and (28) hold and hence 𝑋∗ (𝑡) is exponentially stable in 𝐵∗ . Figure 2 shows the transient behavior of the
unique almost periodic solution (𝑋𝑃 (𝑡), 𝑋𝑁(𝑡)) in 𝐵∗ . Phase
portrait of attractivity of 𝑋𝑃 and 𝑋𝑁 is illustrated in Figure 3.
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0
−0.5
−1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Time (𝑡)
𝑋𝑃 (𝑡)
𝑋𝑁 (𝑡)
Figure 2: Transient behavior of the almost periodic solution of (31)
located in 𝐵∗ .
3
2
XN (t)
1
0
−1
−2
−3
−3
−2
−1
0
XP (t)
1
2
3
Figure 3: Phase portrait of attractivity of the unique almost periodic
solution of (31) located in 𝐵∗ .
5. Concluding Remarks
In this paper, we investigate Wilson-Cowan type model and
obtain the existence of a unique almost periodic solution and
its delay-based local stability in a convex subset. Our results
are new and can reduce to periodic case, hence, complement
existing periodic ones [7, 8]. We point out that there will exist
multiple periodic (almost periodic) solution for system (1)
under suitable parameter configuration. However, it is difficult to analyze its multistability of almost periodic solution by
the existing method [10, 11, 13, 14]. We leave it for interested
readers.
Acknowledgments
This research is supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China under Grants (11101187, 61273021),
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