Stability, bifurcation and global existence of a Hopf-bifurcating periodic solution for a class of three-neuron delayed network models (Q2381476)

The paper studies a network consisting of three-neurons described by the following system of delay differential equations \[ \begin{aligned} y_1'(t) &= -ky_1(t) +\beta \operatorname{tanh} (y_1(t-\tau))+ w_{12} \operatorname{tanh} [y_2(t-\tau)] + w_{13} \operatorname{tanh} [y_3(t-\tau)] + I_1, \\ y_2'(t) &= -ky_2(t) +w_{21} \operatorname{tanh} (y_1(t-\tau))+ \beta \operatorname{tanh} [y_2(t-\tau)] + w_{23} \operatorname{tanh} [y_3(t-\tau)] + I_2, \\ y_3'(t) &= -ky_3(t) +w_{31} \operatorname{tanh} (y_1(t-\tau))+ w_{32} \operatorname{tanh} [y_2(t-\tau)] + \beta \operatorname{tanh} [y_3(t-\tau)] + I_3, \end{aligned} \] where \(k>0\), \(w_{ij}\) and \(\beta\) are weights of synaptic connections, \(\tau>0\) is the fixed delay time, \(I_i\) are constant inputs. The authors provide sufficient conditions for linear stability and occurrence of Hopf bifurcation. Also, sufficient conditions for the existence of multiple periodic solutions are obtained.