Local and global stability for Lotka-Volterra systems with distributed delays and instantaneous negative feedbacks

This paper addresses the local and global stability of n-dimensional Lotka-Volterra systems with distributed delays and instantaneous negative feedbacks. Necessary and sufficient conditions for local stability independent of the choice of the delay functions are given, by imposing a weak nondelayed diagonal dominance which cancels the delayed competition effect. The global asymptotic stability of positive equilibria is established under conditions slightly stronger than the ones required for the linear stability. For the case of monotone interactions, however, sharper conditions are presented. This paper generalizes known results for discrete delays to systems with distributed delays. Several applications illustrate the results.     

Almost periodic solutions for shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks without global Lipschitz activation functions

In this paper the shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) with continuously distributed delays are considered. Without assuming the global Lipschitz conditions of activation functions, sufficient conditions for the existence and local exponential stability of the almost periodic solutions are established by using a fixed point theorem, Lyapunov functional method and differential inequality techniques. The results of this paper are new and they complement previously known results.     

Oscillations and limit cycles in Lotka-Volterra systems with delays

In this paper, competitive Lotka-Volterra systems are studied that have distributed delays and constant coefficients on interaction terms and have time dependent growth rate vectors with an asymptotically constant average. Algebraic conditions are found to rule out non-vanishing oscillations for such systems and heteroclinic limit cycles for autonomous systems. As a supplement to these results, simple sufficient conditions are provided for certain components of all solutions to vanish and a criterion is given for partial permanence. An outstanding feature of all these results is that the conditions are irrelevant of the size and distribution of the delays.     

Sharp conditions for global stability of Lotka-Volterra systems with distributed delays

We give a criterion for the global attractivity of a positive equilibrium of n-dimensional non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra systems with distributed delays. For a class of autonomous Lotka-Volterra systems, we show that such a criterion is sharp, in the sense that it provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic stability independently of the choice of the delay functions. The global attractivity of positive equilibria is established by imposing a diagonal dominance of the instantaneous negative feedback terms, and relies on auxiliary results showing the boundedness of all positive solutions. The paper improves and generalizes known results in the literature, namely by considering systems with distributed delays rather than discrete delays.     

The Mackey–Glass model of respiratory dynamics: Review and new results

Since the celebrated Mackey–Glass model of respiratory dynamics was introduced in 1977, many results on its qualitative behavior have been obtained, including oscillation, stability and chaos. The paper reviews some known properties and presents new results for more general models: equations with time-dependent parameters, several delays, a positive periodic equilibrium and distributed delays. The problems considered in the paper involve existence, positivity and permanence of solutions, oscillation and global asymptotic stability. In addition, some general approaches to the study of nonlinear nonautonomous scalar delay equations are outlined. The paper generalizes and unifies existing results and provides an outlook on further studies.     

Positive almost periodic solution for a class of Nicholson’s blowflies model with multiple time-varying delays

In this paper, we study the existence and exponential convergence of positive almost periodic solutions for the generalized Nicholson’s blowflies model with multiple time-varying delays. Under proper conditions, we establish some criteria to ensure that the solutions of this model converge locally exponentially to a positive almost periodic solution. Moreover, we give some examples to illustrate our main results.     

Stability of nonlinear waves in a ring of neurons with delays

In this paper, we consider a ring of identical neurons with self-feedback and delays. Based on the normal form approach and the center manifold theory, we derive some formula to determine the direction of Hopf bifurcation and stability of the Hopf bifurcated synchronous periodic orbits, phase-locked oscillatory waves, standing waves, mirror-reflecting waves, and so on. In addition, under general conditions, such a network has a slowly oscillatory synchronous periodic solution which is completely characterized by a scalar delay differential equation. Despite the fact that the slowly oscillatory synchronous periodic solution of the scalar equation is stable, we show that the corresponding synchronized periodic solution is unstable if the number of the neurons is large or arbitrary even.     

Attractors for differential equations with unbounded delays

We prove the existence of attractors for some types of differential problems containing infinite delays. Applications and examples are provided to illustrate the theory, which is valid for both cases with and without explicit dependence of time, and with or without uniqueness of solutions, as well.     

Exponential convergence behavior of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks with time-varying coefficients

In this paper the convergence behavior of delayed shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks with time-varying coefficients are considered. Some sufficient conditions are established to ensure that all solutions of the networks converge exponentially to the zero point, which are new and complement previously known results.     

New convergence behavior of high-order hopfield neural networks with time-varying coefficients

In this paper the convergence behavior of the delayed high-order Hopfield neural networks (HHNNs) with time-varying coefficients are considered. Some sufficient conditions are established to ensure that all solutions of the networks converge to zero point, which are new and complement of previously known results.     

On the initial value problem for functional differential systems

For a system of functional differential equations of an arbitrary order the conditions are established for the initial value problem to be solvable on an infinite interval, and the structure of the set of solutions to this problem is studied.     

Autonomous and non-autonomous attractors for differential equations with delays

The asymptotic behaviour of some types of retarded differential equations, with both variable and distributed delays, is analysed. In fact, the existence of global attractors is established for different situations: with and without uniqueness, and for both autonomous and non-autonomous cases, using the classical notion of attractor and the recently new concept of pullback one, respectively.     

Periodic solutions of delay equations with three delays via bi-Hamiltonian systems

In this paper we give sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of delay differential equations with three delays.     

Existence of global solutions of delayed differential equations via retract approach

The purpose of this contribution is to give sufficient conditions for the existence of global solutions or left semi-global solutions for some classes of delayed functional differential equations. The topological approach known as the topological retract principle is used. Inequalities for coordinates of global solutions are derived as a consequence of used method. Examples illustrate the results.     

Permanence and stability of a predator–prey system with stage structure for predator

A stage-structured predator–prey system with delays for prey and predator, respectively, is proposed and analyzed. Mathematical analysis of the model equations with regard to boundedness of solutions, permanence and stability are analyzed. Some sufficient conditions which guarantee the permanence of the system and the global asymptotic stability of the boundary and positive equilibrium, respectively, are obtained.     

Global attractivity of non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra competition system without instantaneous negative feedback

We consider a non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra competition system with distributed delays but without instantaneous negative feedbacks (i.e., pure delay systems). We establish some 3/2-type and M-matrix-type criteria for global attractivity of the positive equilibrium of the system, which generalise and improve the existing ones.     

Finite‐time stability of CNNs with neutral proportional delays and time‐varying leakage delays

In this paper, a class of cellular neural networks with neutral proportional delays and time‐varying leakage delays is considered. Some results on the finite‐time stability for the equations are obtained by using the differential inequality technique. In addition, an example with numerical simulations is given to illustrate our results, and the generalized exponential synchronization is also established. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Positive solutions of p-type retarded functional differential equations

For systems of retarded functional differential equations with unbounded delay and with finite memory sufficient and necessary conditions of existence of positive solutions on an interval of the form [_t0,∞)$[t_0,\infty )$ are derived. A general criterion is given together with corresponding applications (including a linear case, too). Examples are inserted to illustrate the results.     

Stability in functional differential equations established using fixed point theory

In this paper we consider a nonlinear scalar delay differential equation with variable delays and give some new conditions for the boundedness and stability by means of Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theory. A stability theorem with a necessary and sufficient condition is proved. The results in [T.A. Burton, Stability by fixed point theory or Liapunov’s theory: A comparison, Fixed Point Theory 4 (2003) 15–32; T.A. Burton, T. Furumochi, Asymptotic behavior of solutions of functional differential equations by fixed point theorems, Dynamic Systems and Applications 11 (2002) 499–519; B. Zhang, Fixed points and stability in differential equations with variable delays, Nonlinear Analysis 63 (2005) e233–e242] are improved and generalized. Some examples are given to illustrate our theory.