Existence and stability of periodic solution for BAM neural networks with distributed delays (Q706749)

By using Mawhin's continuation theorem for the topological degree, the author obtains the existence of at least one positive periodic solution for the systems \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} \frac{dx_i}{dt}&= -a_i(t)x_i(t)+\sum\limits_{j=1}^mp_{ji}(t)f_j(y_j(t-\tau_{ji}(t,y_j(t))))+I_i(t), &\quad &i=1,2, \dots, n,\\ \frac{dy_j}{dt}&= -b_j(t)y_j(t)+\sum\limits_{i=1}^nq_{ij}(t)f_i(x_i(t-\sigma_{ij}(t,x_i(t))))+J_j(t),&\quad &j=1,2, \dots, m;\\ \frac{dx_i}{dt}&= -a_i(t)x_i(t)+\sum\limits_{j=1}^mp_{ji}(t)f_j \biggl(\int_0^{\infty}h_{ji}(s)y_j(t-s)\,ds\biggr)+ I_i(t),&\quad &i=1,2,\dots, n,\\ \frac{dy_j}{dt}&= -b_j(t)y_j(t)+\sum_{i=1}^nq_{ij}(t)f_i \biggl(\int_0^{\infty}k_{ij}(s)x_i(t-s)\,ds\biggr)+J_j(t), &\quad &j=1,2,\dots, m.\end{alignedat} \] Furthermore, by the method of Lyapunov functions, the stability of the obtained positive periodic solutions are discussed.