Large-scale stochastic hereditary systems under Markovian structural perturbations. III: Qualitative analysis (Q871333)

This paper is part of a 3-parts series in the same journal issue (see Zbl 1121.34085 and Zbl 1121.34086). In this final part of the work, the analysis with respect to convergence and stability of large-scale stochastic hereditary systems under Markovian structural perturbations is continued. This is conducted through the development and the utilization of comparison theorems in the context of vector Lyapunov-like functions and decomposition-aggregation method. A byproduct of the investigation suggests that the qualitative properties of decoupled stochastic hereditary subsystems under random structural perturbations are preserved, as long as the self-inhibitory effects of subsystems are larger than cross-interaction effects of the subsystems. Again, it is shown that these properties are affected by hereditary and Markovian structural perturbations effects. It is also shown that the mathematical conditions are algebraically simple and robust to parametric changes. Moreover, the work generates a concept of block quasi-monotone nondecreasing property that is useful for the investigation of hierarchic systems. These results are further extended to integro-differential equations of Fredholm type. This paper belongs to a series of 3 subsequent papers which investigate the qualitative behavior of large-scale stochastic hereditary systems under Markovian structural perturbations. The random structural perturbations are described by a Markov chain with a finite number of states.