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Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2009, Article ID 461757,13pages doi:10.1155/2009/461757

Research Article

A New Singular Impulsive Delay Differential

Inequality and Its Application

Zhixia Ma

1

and Xiaohu Wang

2

1College of Computer Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu 610041, China

2Yangtze Center of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Xiaohu Wang,[email protected]

Received 10 January 2009; Accepted 5 March 2009

Recommended by Wing-Sum Cheung

A new singular impulsive delay differential inequality is established. Using this inequality, the invariant and attracting sets for impulsive neutral neural networks with delays are obtained. Our results can extend and improve earlier publications.

Copyrightq2009 Z. Ma and X. Wang. 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.

1. Introduction

It is well known that inequality technique is an important tool for investigating dynamical behavior of differential equation. The significance of differential and integral inequalities in the qualitative investigation of various classes of functional equations has been fully illustrated during the last 40 years 1–3. Various inequalities have been established such as the delay integral inequality in4, the differential inequalities in5,6, the impulsive differential inequalities in7–10, Halanay inequalities in11–13, and generalized Halanay inequalities in14–17. By using the technique of inequality, the invariant and attracting sets for differential systems have been studied by many authors9,18–21.

However, the inequalities mentioned above are ineffective for studying the invariant and attracting sets of impulsive nonautonomous neutral neural networks with time-varying delays. On the basis of this, this article is devoted to the discussion of this problem.

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2. Preliminaries

Throughout the paper, En means n-dimensional unit matrix, Rthe set of real numbers, N

the set of positive integers, andN Δ {1,2, . . . , n}.ABA > B means that each pair of corresponding elements ofAandBsatisfies the inequality “≥> ”. Especially,Ais called a nonnegative matrix ifA≥0.

CX, Y denotes the space of continuous mappings from the topological spaceXto the topological spaceY. In particular, letCΔCτ,0,Rn , whereτ >0 is a constant.

P Ca, b,Rn denotes the space of piecewise continuous functionsψs : a, b Rn

with at most countable discontinuous points and at this points ψs are right continuous. Especially, letP CΔP Cτ,0,Rn . Furthermore, putP Ca, b ,Rn

ca,bP Ca, c,Rn .

P C1a, b,Rn {ψs : a, b Rn | ψs ,ψ˙s P Ca, b,Rn }, where ˙ψs

denotes the derivative ofψs . In particular, letP CP C1a, b,Rn .

H {ht : R → R | ht is a positive integrable function and satisfies supat<bttτhs dsσ <∞and limt→ ∞tahs ds∞}.

For x ∈ Rn, A Rn×n,ϕ Cor ϕ P C, we define x |x

1|, . . . ,|xn| T,A |aij| n×n,ϕt τ ϕ1t τ, . . . ,ϕnt τ T,ϕt τ ϕt τ, ϕit τ sup−τθ<0{ϕit

θ }.And we introduce the following norm, respectively,

xmax 1≤in

xi, Amax 1≤in

n

j1

aij, ϕτ sup

τs≤0

ϕs . 2.1

For anyϕP C1, we define the following norm:

ϕ1τ maxϕττ. 2.2

For anM-matrixDdefined in23, we denote

ΩMD z∈Rn |Dz >0, z >0. 2.3

It is a cone without conical surface inRn. We call it an “M-cone”.

3. Singular Impulsive Delay Differential Inequality

For convenience, we introduce the following conditions.

C1 Let ther-dimensional diagonal matrixKdiag{k1, . . . , kr}satisfy

ki >0, iS⊂ N∗Δ{1, . . . , r}, ki0, iS∗ΔN∗−S. 3.1

C2 LetUPQ be anM-matrix, whereQ qij r×r ≥0 andP pij r×r satisfies

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Theorem 3.1. Assume the conditions C1 and C2 hold. Let L L1, . . . , Lr and ut u1t , . . . , urt T be a solution of the following singular delay differential inequality with the initial conditionsutP Caτ, a,Rr :

KDutht P ut Q ut τL, ta, b , 3.3

whereτ >0, a < b≤∞, anduitCa, b ,R, iS,uitP Ca, b ,R , iS,ht ∈ H. Then

utdzeλtahsdsPQ −1L, ta, b , 3.4

provided that the initial conditions satisfy

utdzeλtahsdsPQ −1L, taτ, a, 3.5

whered≥0,z z1, . . . , zr T ∈ΩMU and the positive numberλsatisfies the following inequality:

λKPQeλσz <0, ta, b . 3.6

Proof. By the conditionsC2 and the definition ofM-matrix, there is a constant vectorz z1, . . . , zr Tsuch thatPQ z <0,−PQ −1exists and−PQ −1≥0.

By using continuity, we obtain that there must exist a positive constantλsatisfying the inequality3.6, that is,

r

j1

pijqijeλσ

zj<λkizi, i∈ N∗. 3.7

Denote by

vt v1t , . . . , vrt T

ut PQ −1L, taτ, b . 3.8

It follows from3.3 and3.5 that

KDvtht P ut Q ut τL

ht P vt Q vt τ, ta, b ,

vtdzeλtahsds, taτ, a.

3.9

In the following, we will prove that for any positive constantε,

vit zieλ

t

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Let

℘i∈ N∗| vit > wit for some ta, b ,

θiinf

ta, b |vit > wit , i℘. 3.11

If inequality3.10 is not true, thenis a nonempty set and there must exist some integer

msuch thatθmmini℘{θi} ∈a, b .

IfmS, byvmtCa, b ,R and the inequality3.5 , we can get

θm> a, vm θm wm θm

, Dvm

θm

w˙m

θm

, 3.12

vitwit , taτ, θm , i∈ N∗, vi

θm

wi

θm

, iS. 3.13

By usingC2 ,3.3 ,3.7 ,3.12 ,3.13 , andvit τ sup−τθ<0{uitθ }, i∈ N∗, we obtain that

kmDvm

θm

hθm r

j1

pmjvj

θm

qmj vj

θm

τ

hθm

pmmvm

θm

j /m, jS

pmjvj

θm

jS

pmjvj

θm

j1

qmj vj

θm

τ

hθm

jS

pmjdε zjeλ

θm a hsds

r

j1

qmjdε zjeλ

θmτ a hsds

hθm r

j1

pmjqmjeλσ

zjeλ

θm a hsds

< λkmzmh

θm

eλθma hsds.

3.14

SincemS, we havekm>0 byH1 . Then3.14 becomes

Dum

θm

< λzmh

θm

eλθma rsdsw˙mθm, 3.15

which contradicts the second inequality in3.12 .

IfmS∗, thenkm0 byC1 andvmtP Ca, b ,R . From the inequality3.5 , we can get

θm> a, vm

θm

wm

θm

, vi

θm

wi

θm

, iS,

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By usingC2 ,3.3,3.7,3.16 , andvit τ sup−τθ<0{vitθ }, i∈ N∗, we obtain that

0≤

r

j1

pmjvj

θm

j1

qmj vj

θm

τ

jS

pmjvj

θm

pmmvmθm

j /m, jS

pmjvj

θm

r j1

qmj vj

θm

τ

jS

pmjzjpmmzm

j1

qmjzjeλ

θm θmτhsds

eλθma hsds

r

j1

pmjzjqmjzjeλσ

eλθma hsds

< kmzmh

θm

eλθma hsds 0.

3.17

This is a contradiction. Thus the inequality3.10 holds. Therefore, lettingε → 0 in3.10 , we have

vt ut PQ −1Ldzeλtahsds, ta, b . 3.18

The proof is complete.

Remark 3.2. In order to overcome the difficulty thatut in3.3 may be discontinuous, we introduce the notation uit τ supτs<0{uits } which is different from the notation

uit τsupτs0{uits }in7. However, whenuit is continuous int, we have

uit τ sup

τs<0

uits sup

τs≤0

uits , i∈ N∗. 3.19

So we can get7, Lemma 1when we chooseKEr,SN∗,ht ≡1 inTheorem 3.1.

Remark 3.3. Suppose thatL L1, . . . , Lr T 0 andht ≡1 inTheorem 3.1, then we can get 10, Theorem 3.1.

4. Applications

The singular impulsive delay differential inequality obtained in Section 3 can be widely applied to study the dynamics of impulsive neutral differential equations. To illustrate the theory, we consider the following nonautonomous impulsive neutral neural networks with delays

˙

xtDt xt At Fxt Bt Gxtτt

Ct Hx˙trt Jt , t /tk,

xt Ik

t, xt, ttk,

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where x x1, . . . , xn T ∈ Rn is the neural state vector; Dt diag{d1t , . . . , dnt } > 0, At aijt n×n, Bt bijt n×n, Ct cijt n×n are the interconnection matrices

representing the weighting coefficients of the neurons;Fx f1x1 , . . . , fnxn T, Gx g1x1 , . . . , gnxn T, Hx h1x1 , . . . , hnxn T are activation functions; τt τijt n×n, rt rijt n×n are transmission delays; Jt J1t , . . . , Jnt T denotes the external inputs at time t. Ikt, y I1kt, y , . . . , Inkt, y T represents impulsive perturbations; the fixed moments of timetksatisfytk< tk1, limk→∞tk, k∈N.

The initial condition for4.1 is given by

xt0s

ϕsP C1, t0∈R,τs≤0. 4.2

We always assume that for anyϕP C1,4.1 has at least one solution throught 0, ϕ , denoted byxt, t0, ϕ orxtt0, ϕ simplyxt orxtif no confusion should occur .

Definition 4.1. The setSP C1is called a positive invariant set of4.1, if for any initial value

ϕS, we have the solutionxtt0, ϕSfortt0.

Definition 4.2. The setSP C1is called a global attracting set of4.1 , if for any initial value

ϕP C1, the solutionxtt

0, ϕ converges toSast → ∞. That is,

distxt, S −→0 ast−→∞, 4.3

where distφ, S infψSdistφ, ψ , distφ, ψ supsτ,0|φsψs |,forφP C1.

Throughout this section, we suppose the following.

H1 DtP CR,Rn , At , Bt , Ct , τt , rt are continuous. Moreover, 0≤τijtτ and 0< rijtτ i, j∈ N .

H2 There exist nonnegative matricesD1 diag{d11, . . . ,d1n},D2 diag{d21, . . . ,d2n},

J J1, . . . ,Jn T,hs ∈ Hand a constantδ >0 such that

D1htDtD2ht , 0< ht ≤ 1

δ, Jt

Jh t . 4.4

H3 There exist nonnegative matricesA aij n×n,B bij n×n,C cij n×nsuch that

AtAh t , BtBh t , CtCh t . 4.5

H4 There exist nonnegative matricesF diag{α1, . . . , αn},G diag{β1, . . . , βn},H diag{γ1, . . . , γn}such that for allu∈Rnthe activating functionsF· , G· andH· satisfy

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H5 There exists nonnegative matrix Ik Iijk n×n, such that for allu ∈ Rn,i ∈ Nand

k∈N

Ikt, uIku. 4.7

H6 Denote by

UAF, V BG, W CH,

K

En 0

0 0

diagk1, . . . ,k2n

, L J,JT,

P

D1U 0

D2UδEn

Δ

pijt 2n×2n, Q

V W

V W

Δ

qijt 2n×2n,

4.8

and letDPQ be anM-matrix, andPQ −1L 1, 2 T ≥0, 1, 2∈

Rn.

H7 There exists a constantνsuch that

lnηkν tk

tk−1

hs ds, k∈N, μ

k1

lnμk<, 4.9

whereν < λ, and the scalarλ >0 is determined by the inequality

λKPQeλσz<0, 4.10

wherezz1, . . . , z2n T ∈ΩMD , and

ηk, μk≥1, ηkzxIkzx, μk1≥Ik1, k∈N, zx

z1, . . . , zn T

. 4.11

Theorem 4.3. Assume that H1 –H7 hold. Then S {φP C1 | φτ1} is a global attracting set of 4.1.

Proof. Denote ˙xt yt . Let sgn· be the sign function. For x x1, . . . , xn T, define Sgnx diag{sgnx1 , . . . ,sgnxn }.

Calculating the upper right derivativeDxt along system4.1. From4.1,H2 andH3 we have

D xthtD1U xt

V G xt τ

W yt τJ, ttk−1, tk

, tσ, k∈N.

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On the other hand, from4.1 andH2 –H4 , we have

0≤ht

− 1

ht yt

D

2U xt

V xt

τW yt

τJ

htδ yt D2U xt V xt

τW yt

τJ

, ttk−1, tk , k∈N. 4.13

Let

ut xt , yt T ∈R2n, 4.14

then from4.12 –4.14 andH6 , we have

KD utht P ut Q ut τ L, ttk−1, tk , k∈N. 4.15

By the conditionsH6 and the definition ofM-matrix, we may choose a vectorzz1, . . . , z2n T ∈ΩMD such that

Dz∗−PQ z>0. 4.16

By using continuity, we obtain that there must be a positive constantλsatisfying the inequality4.10 . Letzx z1, . . . , zn T and zy zn1, . . . , z2n T, thenzzx, zy T. Since

z>0, denote

d 1

min1≤i≤2n

zi

, 4.17

thendz∗≥e2n 1, . . . ,1 T ∈R2n. From the property ofM-cone, we have,dz∗∈ΩMD .

For the initial conditionsxt0s ϕs ,s∈ −τ,0, whereϕP C1 andt0 ∈ Rno loss of generality, we assumet0≤t1 , andtt0−τ, t0, we can get

xtϕt τeλ

t

t0hsdsdzx,

ytϕt τeλ

t

t0hsdsdzy,

4.18

Then4.18 yield

utdzϕ1τeλ

t

t0hsds, t0τtt0. 4.19

LetN∗ {1, . . . ,2n},S {1, . . . , n} NandS∗ {n1, . . . ,2n} N∗−S. Thus, all conditions ofTheorem 3.1are satisfied. ByTheorem 3.1, we have

utdzϕ1τeλ

t

t0hsds, t

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Suppose that for allm1, . . . , k, the inequalities

ut

m−1

j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

t t0hsds

m−1

j0

μj, tm−1≤t < tm, tt0, 4.21

hold, whereη0μ01.

From4.21 ,H5 , andH7 , we can get

xtk

Ik x

tk

k j0

ηjdzxϕt 1τe

tk t0hsds

k

j0

μj1.

4.22

SincePQ −1L, we have

D2U V

1W 22. 4.23

On the other hand, it follows fromH7 that

D2U

zx V zxWzyeλσ< δzy. 4.24

Then from4.21 –4.24 , we have

ytk

k

j0

ηjdz1τe

λtkt 0hsds

k

j0

μj2, 4.25

which together with4.22 yields that

utk

k

j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

tk t0hsds

k

j0

μj. 4.26

Then, it follows from4.21 and4.26 that

ut

k

j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

t t0hsds

k

j0

μj

k j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

tk

t0hsdseλ

t tkhsds

k

j0

μj,ttkτ, tk

.

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UsingTheorem 3.1again, we have

ut

k

j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

tk

t0hsdseλ

t tkhsds

k

j0

μj

k j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

t t0hsds

k

j0

μj, tkt < tk1.

4.28

By mathematical induction, we can conclude that

ut

k

j0

ηjdzϕ1τeλ

t t0hsds

k

j0

μj, tkt < tk1, k∈N. 4.29

Noticing thatηk

tk

tk−1hsds, byH7 , we can use4.29 to conclude that

utdzϕ1τ

t

t0hsdseλ

t

t0hsdseμ dzϕ1τeλν

t

t0hsdseμ, t

k−1 ≤t < tk, k∈N.

4.30

This implies that the conclusion of the theorem holds.

By usingTheorem 4.3withd 0, we can obtain a positive invariant set of4.1, and the proof is similar to that ofTheorem 4.3.

Theorem 4.4. Assume thatH1 –H7 withIk Enhold. ThenS {φP C1 |φτ1}is a positive invariant set and also a global attracting set of 4.1.

Remark 4.5. Suppose thatcij ≡0, i, j∈ NinH5 , andht ≡1, then we can get Theorems 1 and 2 in9.

Remark 4.6. IfIkt, xtx ∈ Rn then 4.1 becomes the nonautonomous neutral neural

networks without impulses, we can get Theorem 4.1 in22.

5. Illustrative Example

The following illustrative example will demonstrate the effectiveness of our results.

Example 5.1. Consider nonlinear impulsive neutral neural networks:

˙

x1t

7cos2tx1t sinttan

x1

tτ11t

−1

4costx˙2

tr12t −1.5 cost,

˙

x2t

6sin2tx2t −2 costx2

tτ22t 1

4sinttan

˙

x1

tr21t

2.5 sint, t /k,

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with

x1t I1

t, xt,

tk, k∈N, x2t I2

t, xt,

5.2

whereτijt 1/4 |cosij t | ≤ 1/4 Δ τ,rijt 1/4−1/8 |sinij t |,i, j 1,2,

Ikt, x a1kt x1b1kt x2 , a2kt x1b2kt x2 T, k∈N.

The parameters of conditionsH3 –H9 are as follows:

ht δ1, D1diag{7,6}, D2diag{8,7}, σ 1

4, J 1.5,2.5

T, U 0 0 0 0 , V 1 0 0 2

, W 1

4 0 1 1 0 , K ⎛ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝

1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

⎞ ⎟ ⎟

, P

D1U 0

D2UδE2 ⎛ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝

−7 0 0 0

0 −6 0 0

8 0 −1 0

0 7 0 −1

⎞ ⎟ ⎟ ⎠, Q V W V W ⎛ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝

1 0 0 1

4

0 2 1

4 0

1 0 0 1

4

0 2 1

4 0 ⎞ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎠ ,

DPQ

⎛ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝

6 0 0 −1

4

0 4 −1

4 0

−9 0 1 −1 4 0 −9 −1

4 1 ⎞ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎟ ⎠ . 5.3

It is easy to prove thatDis anM-matrix and

ΩMDz1, z2, z3, z4 T

>0|9z2 1

4z3< z4<24z1,9z1 1

4z4< z3<16z2

. 5.4

Let z∗ 1,1,15,20 T, then z∗ ∈ ΩMD and zx 1,1 T. Let λ 0.1 which satisfies the inequality

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Now, we discuss the asymptotical behavior of the system5.1 as follows.

i Ifa1kt b2kt 0, b1kt 1/2 e1/5 2k

1sint , a2kt 1/2 e1/5 2k

1−cost , then

Ike1/5 2k.0 1

1 0

. 5.6

Thusηk μke1/5 2k

≥1, lnηk e1/5 2k

≤0.04,ν0.04< λ, andμ1/24. Clearly, all conditions ofTheorem 4.3are satisfied, byTheorem 4.3,S {φP C1 |φ

τ

e1/24

1≈e1/241.196,1.746 T}is a global attracting set of5.1.

ii Ifa1kt cost, b2kt sint, b1kt a2kt 0, thenIk E2. ByTheorem 4.4,

S{φP C1|φ

τ1≈1.196,1.746 T}is a positive invariant set of5.1 .

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no. 10671133 and the Scientific Research Fund of Sichuan Provincial Education Department

08ZA044 .

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