Yuan, Yuan; Campbell, Sue Ann Stability and synchronization of a ring of identical cells with delayed coupling. (English) Zbl 1071.34079 J. Dyn. Differ. Equations 16, No. 3, 709-744 (2004). The subject of the paper is a ring of coupled identical systems with time delayed, nearest neighbor coupling \[ x_i' = -x_i(t) + \alpha f(x_i(t-\tau_s)) + \beta [g(x_{i-1}(t-\tau))+ g (x_{i+1}(t-\tau))], \quad (i \mod n), \tag{1} \] where \(f,g\in C^3\) are bounded functions. In addition, it assumed that \(f(0)=g(0)=0\), \(f'(0)=g'(0)=1\); \(f'(x)>0\), \(g'(x)>0\) for all \(x\in \mathbb{R}\); \(xf''(x)<0\) and \(xg''(x)<0\) for all \(x\neq 0\); and \(f'''(0)<0\), \(g'''(0)<0\).The authors study the local stability of the trivial solution \(x_i=0\) as well as the existence and stability of the synchronized solutions of (1). Lyapunov functionals are used to establish global stability of the synchronized solutions. Reviewer: Sergiy Yanchuk (Berlin) Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 47 Documents MSC: 34K20 Stability theory of functional-differential equations 34K19 Invariant manifolds of functional-differential equations 34K25 Asymptotic theory of functional-differential equations Keywords:delay differential equations; neural networks; stability; symmetry; synchronization Software:XPPAUT PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{Y. Yuan} and \textit{S. A. Campbell}, J. Dyn. Differ. Equations 16, No. 3, 709--744 (2004; Zbl 1071.34079) Full Text: DOI