Existence and global attractivity of almost periodic solutions for neural field with time delay (Q929469)

The authors consider the delayed neural field model \[ {\partial u\over\partial t}(t, x)= -a(x)u(t, x)+ W(t, x)g(u(t- \tau,x))+ \int_\Omega F(x,y) g(u(t,y))\,dy+ I(t,x)\tag{1} \] with initial conditions \(u(s,x)= \varphi(s,x)\), \(s\in [-\tau,0]\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^n\), where \(\varphi\in C([-\tau, 0]; \mathbb{R}^n)\) and \(\varphi\) is bounded and continuous. The set \(\Omega\) is a bounded, open, connected subset of \(\mathbb{R}^2\), \(u\) is the state (input) of the system at position \(x\) at time \(t\), \(I\) is the external input at position \(x\in\Omega\) at time \(t\), \(g\circ u\) is the output of the system at position \(x\in\Omega\) at time \(t\) having bounded range, \(g\) is the typical input-output relation, that is a continuous and monotone increasing function, \(\tau\geq 0\) is the constant transmission delay, \(W\) denotes the \(n\times n\) dimension connection weights, \(F\) denotes the \(n\times n\) dimension interconnection which connects the neuron at the position \(y\) to the neuron at position \(x\), \(a(x)\) is a positive constant at position \(x\), \(W\) and \(I\) are continuous almost periodic functions and \(g(0)= 0\). The space \(C([-\tau,0]; \mathbb{R}^n)\) is the phase space as a Banach space of continuous mappings from \([-\tau,0]\) to \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with the norm \[ \|\varphi(t, x)\|= \max_{1\leq i\leq n}\,\Biggl(\sup_{-\tau\leq t\leq 0}|\varphi_i(t,x)|\Biggr),\tag{2} \] where \(\varphi= (\varphi_1,\dots, \varphi_n)\), \(t\in [-\tau,0]\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^n\). Supposing \(g\) as a Lipschitz function, the authors prove that (1) has a unique almost periodic solution in the defined region. Moreover, if \(u\) is an arbitrary solution of (1), \(u^*\) an almost periodic solution of (1) in the named region, \(v(t,x)= u(t,x)- u^*\) a transformation of (1) in the new system denoted by (2) and \(\Omega\) a compact set, then the solution \(v\) of (2) is uniformly bounded and the equilibrium point \(0\) of (2) is global attractive. So, (1) has a unique almost periodic solution which is globally attractive.