Global attractivity of a synchronized periodic orbit in a delayed network (Q1399353)

The subject of the paper is the system of delay differential equations \[ \begin{aligned} \dot x &= -\mu x + a_{11} f(x(t-\tau)) + a_{12} f(y(t-\tau)),\\ \dot y &= -\mu y + a_{21} f(x(t-\tau)) + a_{22} f(y(t-\tau)), \end{aligned} \] where the function \(f\) is piecewise-constant: \(f(\xi)=-\delta\) if \(\xi>0\) and \(f(\xi)=\delta\) if \(\xi\leq 0\). Such system represents a simple model for describing two interacting neurons. The main claim of the paper is that, if \(|a_{12}|< |a_{11}|\), \(|a_{22}|< |a_{21}|\), and \(a_{11}a_{22}-a_{12}a_{21}=0\), then all solutions starting from nonoscillatory initial states will be eventually synchronized (i.e., \(|x(t)-y(t)|\to 0\) as \(t\to \infty\)) and stabilized at a unique limit cycle.