Bifurcation analysis and existence of periodic solutions in a simple neural network with delays

Abstract

Results are provided here about the stability and bifurcation of periodic solutions for a (neural) network with n elements where delays between adjacent units and external inputs are included. The particular cases n = 2 and n = 3 are discussed in details, to explicitly illustrate the role of the delays in the corresponding bifurcation sets and the stability properties, like a Hopf bifurcation, a pitchfork bifurcation, and a Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation.