Coexistence and local μ-stability of multiple equilibrium points for memristive neural networks with nonmonotonic piecewise linear activation functions and unbounded time-varying delays.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

In this paper, the coexistence and dynamical behaviors of multiple equilibrium points are discussed for a class of memristive neural networks (MNNs) with unbounded time-varying delays and nonmonotonic piecewise linear activation functions. By means of the fixed point theorem, nonsmooth analysis theory and rigorous mathematical analysis, it is proven that under some conditions, such n-neuron MNNs can have 5 equilibrium points located in ℜ, and 3 of them are locally μ-stable. As a direct application, some criteria are also obtained on the multiple exponential stability, multiple power stability, multiple log-stability and multiple log-log-stability. All these results reveal that the addressed neural networks with activation functions introduced in this paper can generate greater storage capacity than the ones with Mexican-hat-type activation function. Numerical simulations are presented to substantiate the theoretical results.

Authors

  • Xiaobing Nie
    Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Sydney NSW 2751, Australia. Electronic address: xbnie@seu.edu.cn.
  • Wei Xing Zheng
  • Jinde Cao