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Stable isotope ratios and speleothem chronology from a high-elevation alpine cave, southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado (USA): Evidence for substantial deglaciation as early as 13.5 ka

  • Received: 10 November 2018 Accepted: 07 March 2019 Published: 27 March 2019
  • Deglaciation ages for valley glaciers from the last glacial maximum are difficult to obtain with precision. The unequal or non-uniform loss of glacial ice cover (spatial heterogeneity) during glacial retreat results in exposure of considerable land surface area prior to complete deglaciation. New U-series dates from an 11cm long stalagmite in a shallow, high elevation (3242 m) cave in the southern San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado (USA), indicate that substantial, high-elevation glacial ice ablation occurred prior to 13.5 ka. The stalagmite dates compare well with other deglaciation studies in central and southern Colorado that show deglaciation occurred between ca. 13 ka to 15 ka. Low δ13C values from 13.5 ka speleothem growth bands, relative to the δ13C value of the host carbonate, suggest that alpine plant and soil cover was established at this location, aspect, and elevation prior to 13.5 ka. Calcite luminescence in the 13.5 ka growth bands indicates the presence of humic and fulvic acids released by the roots of living plants and decomposition of vegetative matter. The carbon isotope ratios, calcite luminescence, and U-series dates suggest that the southern San Juan Mountains, at this high elevation site and southern aspect were substantially ice-free prior to 13.5 ka.

    Citation: Ray Kenny. Stable isotope ratios and speleothem chronology from a high-elevation alpine cave, southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado (USA): Evidence for substantial deglaciation as early as 13.5 ka[J]. AIMS Geosciences, 2019, 5(1): 41-65. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2019.1.41

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  • Deglaciation ages for valley glaciers from the last glacial maximum are difficult to obtain with precision. The unequal or non-uniform loss of glacial ice cover (spatial heterogeneity) during glacial retreat results in exposure of considerable land surface area prior to complete deglaciation. New U-series dates from an 11cm long stalagmite in a shallow, high elevation (3242 m) cave in the southern San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado (USA), indicate that substantial, high-elevation glacial ice ablation occurred prior to 13.5 ka. The stalagmite dates compare well with other deglaciation studies in central and southern Colorado that show deglaciation occurred between ca. 13 ka to 15 ka. Low δ13C values from 13.5 ka speleothem growth bands, relative to the δ13C value of the host carbonate, suggest that alpine plant and soil cover was established at this location, aspect, and elevation prior to 13.5 ka. Calcite luminescence in the 13.5 ka growth bands indicates the presence of humic and fulvic acids released by the roots of living plants and decomposition of vegetative matter. The carbon isotope ratios, calcite luminescence, and U-series dates suggest that the southern San Juan Mountains, at this high elevation site and southern aspect were substantially ice-free prior to 13.5 ka.


    Due to the engineering backgrounds and strong biological significance, Babcock and Westervelt [1,2] introduced an inertial term into the traditional multidirectional associative memory neural networks, and established a class of second order delay differential equations, which was called as the famous delayed inertial neural networks model. Arising from problems in different applied sciences such as mathematical physics, control theory, biology in different situations, nonlinear vibration, mechanics, electromagnetic theory and other related fields, the periodic oscillation is an important qualitative property of nonlinear differential equations [3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Consequently, assuming that the activation functions are bounded and employing reduced-order variable substitution which convert the inertial systems into the first order differential equations, the authors in [10,11] and [12] have respectively gained the existence and stability of anti-periodic solution and periodic solution for addressed inertial neural networks models. Manifestly, the above transformation will raise the dimension in the inertial neural networks system, then some new parameters need to be introduced. This will increase huge amount of computation and be attained hard in practice [13,14]. For the above reasons, most recently, avoiding the reduced order method, the authors in [15] and [16] respectively developed some non-reduced order methods to establish the existence and stability of periodic solutions for inertial neural networks with time-varying delays.

    It has been recognized that, in neural networks dynamics touching the communication, economics, biology or ecology areas, the relevant state variables are often considered as proteins and molecules, light intensity levels or electric charge, and they are naturally anti-periodic [17,18,19]. Such neural networks systems are often regarded as anti-periodic systems. Therefore, the convergence analysis and stability on the anti-periodic solutions in various neural networks systems with delays have attracted the interest of many researchers and some excellent results are reported in [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. In particular, the anti-periodicity on inertial quaternion-valued high-order Hopfield neural networks with state-dependent delays has been established in [28] by employing reduced-order variable substitution. However, few researchers have utilized the non-reduced order methods to explore such topics on the following high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks involving time-varying delays:

    xi(t)=ˉai(t)xi(t)ˉbi(t)xi(t)+nj=1ˉcij(t)Aj(xj(t))+nj=1ˉdij(t)Bj(xj(tqij(t)))+nj=1nl=1θijl(t)Qj(xj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t)))+Ji(t), t0, (1.1)

    associating with initial value conditions:

    xi(s)=φi(s), xi(s)=ψi(s), τis0, φi, ψiC([τi,0],R), (1.2)

    where nj=1ˉcij(t)Aj(xj(t)), nj=1ˉdij(t)Bj(xj(tqij(t))) and nj=1nl=1θijl(t)Qj(xj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t))) are respectively the first-order term and the second-order term of the neural network, Aj, Bj and Qj are the nonlinear activation functions, τi=max1l,jn{suptRqij(t), suptRηijl(t),suptRξijl(t)}, Ji,ˉcij,ˉdij,θijl,ˉai,ˉbi:RR and qij, ηijl, ξijl:RR+ are bounded and continuous functions, ˉai,ˉbi,qij, ηijl, ξijl are periodic functions with period T>0, the input term Ji is T-anti-periodic (Ji(t+T)=Ji(t) for all tR), and i,j,lD:={1,2,,n}.

    Motivated by the above arguments, in this paper, without adopting the reduced order method, we propose a novel approach involving differential inequality techniques coupled with Lyapunov function method to demonstrate the existence and global exponential stability of anti-periodic solutions for system (1.1). Particularly, our results are new and supplement some corresponding ones of the existing literature [19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28]. In a nutshell, the contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows. 1) A class of anti-periodic high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks involving time-varying delays are proposed; 2) Under some appropriate anti-periodic assumptions, all solutions and their derivatives in the proposed neural networks model are guaranteed to converge to the anti-periodic solution and its derivative, respectively; 3) Numerical results including comparisons are presented to verify the obtained theoretical results.

    The remaining parts of this paper are organized as follows. In Section 2, we make some preparations. In Section 3, the existence and the global exponential stability of the anti-periodic solution are stated and demonstrated. Section 4 shows numerical examples. Conclusions are drawn in Section 5.

    To study the existence and uniqueness of anti-periodic solutions to system (1.1), we first require the following assumptions and some key lemmas:

    Assumptions:

    (F1) For i,j,lD, Aj(u),Bj(u),Qj(u) are all non-decreasing functions with Aj(0)=Bj(0)=Qj(0)=0, and there are nonnegative constants LAj, LBj, LQj and MQj such that

    |Aj(u)Aj(v)|LAj|uv|, |Bj(u)Bj(v)|LBj|uv|, |Qj(u)Qj(v)|LQj|uv|, 
    |Qj(u)|MQj, ˉcij(t+T)Aj(u)=ˉcij(t)Aj(u),  ˉdij(t+T)Bj(u)=ˉdij(t)Bj(u),

    and

     θijl(t+T)Qj(u)Ql(v)=θijl(t)Qj(u)Ql(v),

    for all u, vR.

    (F2) There are constants βi>0 and αi0,γi0 obeying

    Ei(t)<0,   4Ei(t)Gi(t)>H2i(t), tR, iD, (2.1)

    where

    Ei(t)=αiγiˉai(t)α2i+12α2inj=1(|ˉcij(t)|LAj+|ˉdij(t)|LBj)         +12α2inj=1nl=1|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl),Gi(t)=ˉbi(t)αiγi+12nj=1(|ˉcij(t)|LAj+|ˉdij(t)|LBj)|αiγi|         +12nj=1α2j(|ˉcji(t)|LAi+ˉd+jiLBi11˙q+ji)         +12nj=1(|ˉcji(t)|LAi+ˉd+jiLBi11˙q+ji)|αjγj|         +12nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)         +12nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQi11˙ξ+lji         +12nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQl11˙η+jil),
    Hi(t)=βi+γ2iˉai(t)αiγiˉbi(t)α2i, ˙q+ij=suptRqij(t),˙η+ijl=suptRηijl(t), ˙ξ+ijl=suptRξijl(t),  q+ij=suptRqij(t), η+ijl=suptRηijl(t),ξ+ijl=suptRξijl(t), ˉc+ij=suptR|ˉcij(t)|, ˉd+ij=suptR|ˉdij(t)|, i,j,lD.

    (F3) For i,j,lD, qij, ηijl and ξijl are continuously differentiable, qij(t)=˙qij(t)<1, ηijl(t)=˙ηijl(t)<1 and ξijl(t)=˙ξijl(t)<1 for all tR.

    We will adopt the following notations:

    θ+ijl=maxt[0,T]|θijl(t)|,i,j,lD.

    Remark 2.1. Since (1.1) can be converted into the first order functional differential equations. In view of (F1) and ([29], p176, Theorem 5.4), one can see that all solutions of (1.1) and (1.2) exist on [0, +).

    Lemma 2.1. Under (F1), (F2) and (F3), label x(t)=(x1(t),x2(t),,xn(t)) and y(t)=(y1(t),y2(t),,yn(t)) as two solutions of system (1.1) satisfying

    xi(s)=φxi(s), xi(s)=ψxi(s), yi(s)=φyi(s), yi(s)=ψyi(s), (2.2)

    where τis0, iD, φxi,ψxi,φyi,ψyiC([τi,0],R). Then, there are two positive constants λ and M=M(φx,ψx,φy,ψy) such that

    |xi(t)yi(t)|Meλt,   |xi(t)yi(t)|Meλt, for all t0, iD.

    Proof. Denote x(t)=(x1(t),x2(t),,xn(t)) and y(t)=(y1(t),y2(t),,yn(t)) as two solutions of (1.1) and (1.2). Let wi(t)=yi(t)xi(t), then

    wi(t)=ˉai(t)wi(t)ˉbi(t)wi(t)+nj=1ˉcij(t)˜Aj(wj(t))+nj=1ˉdij(t)˜Bj(wj(tqij(t)))+nj=1nl=1θijl(t)[Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))Ql(yl(tξijl(t)))Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))×Ql(xl(tξijl(t)))+Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t)))Qj(xj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t)))], (2.3)

    where  i,jD, ˜Aj(wj(t))=Aj(yj(t))Aj(xj(t)) and

    ˜Bj(wj(tqij(t)))=Bj(yj(tqij(t)))Bj(xj(tqij(t))).

    According to (F2) and the periodicity in (1.1), one can select a constant λ>0 such that

    Eλi(t)<0,   4Eλi(t)Gλi(t)>(Hλi(t))2, tR, (2.4)

    where

    {Eλi(t)=λα2i+αiγiˉai(t)α2i+12α2inj=1(|ˉcij(t)|LAj+|ˉdij(t)|LBj)         +12α2inj=1nl=1|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl),Gλi(t)=ˉbi(t)αiγi+λβi+λγ2i+12nj=1(|ˉcij(t)|LAj+|ˉdij(t)|LBj)|αiγi|         +12nj=1α2j(|ˉcji(t)|LAi+ˉd+jiLBi11˙q+jie2λq+ji)         +12nj=1(|ˉcji(t)|LAi+ˉd+jiLBi11˙q+jie2λq+ji)|αjγj|         +12nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)         +12nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+lji11˙ξ+lji         +12nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jil11˙η+jil),Hλi(t)=βi+γ2i+2λαiγiˉai(t)αiγiˉbi(t)α2i,    i,jD.

    Define the Lyapunov function by setting

    K(t)=12ni=1βiw2i(t)e2λt+12ni=1(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))2e2λt+12ni=1nj=1(α2iˉd+ij+|αiγi|ˉd+ij)e2λq+ijLBjttqij(t)w2j(s)11˙q+ije2λsds+12ni=1nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+ljittξlji(t)w2i(s)11˙ξ+ljie2λsds+12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jilttηjil(t)w2i(s)11˙η+jile2λsds.

    Straightforward computation yields that

    K(t)=2λ[12ni=1βiw2i(t)e2λt+12ni=1(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))2e2λt]+ni=1βiwi(t)wi(t)e2λt+ni=1(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))e2λt+12ni=1nj=1(α2iˉd+ij+|αiγi|ˉd+ij)e2λq+ij11˙q+ijLBj×[w2j(t)e2λtw2j(tqij(t))e2λ(tqij(t))(1qij(t))]+12ni=1nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+lji11˙ξ+lji×[w2i(t)e2λtw2i(tξlji(t))e2λ(tξlji(t))(1ξlji(t))]+12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jil11˙η+jil×[w2i(t)e2λtw2i(tηjil(t))e2λ(tηjil(t))(1ηjil(t))]
    =2λ[12ni=1βiw2i(t)e2λt+12ni=1(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))2e2λt]+ni=1(βi+γ2i)wi(t)wi(t)e2λt+ni=1αi(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))e2λt×[ˉai(t)wi(t)ˉbi(t)wi(t)+nj=1ˉcij(t)˜Aj(wj(t))+nj=1ˉdij(t)˜Bj(wj(tqij(t)))+nj=1nl=1θijl(t)(Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))Ql(yl(tξijl(t)))Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t)))+Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t)))Qj(xj(tηijl(t)))Ql(xl(tξijl(t))))]+ni=1αiγi(wi(t))2e2λt +12ni=1nj=1(α2iˉd+ij+|αiγi|ˉd+ij)e2λq+ijLBj×[w2j(t)11˙q+ije2λtw2j(tqij(t))e2λ(tqij(t))1qij(t)1˙q+ij]+12ni=1nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+lji×[w2i(t)11˙ξ+ljie2λtw2i(tξlji(t))e2λ(tξlji(t))1ξlji(t)1˙ξ+lji]+12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jil×[w2i(t)11˙η+jile2λtw2i(tηjil(t))e2λ(tηjil(t))1ηjil(t)1˙η+jil]
    e2λt{ni=1(βi+γ2i+2λαiγiˉai(t)αiγiˉbi(t)α2i)wi(t)wi(t)+ni=1(λα2i+αiγiˉai(t)α2i)(wi(t))2ni=1(ˉbi(t)αiγiλβiλγ2i)w2i(t)+12ni=1nj=1(α2iˉd+ij+|αiγi|ˉd+ij)11˙q+ije2λq+ijLBjw2j(t)+12ni=1nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+ljiw2i(t)11˙ξ+lji+12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jilw2i(t)11˙η+jil12ni=1nj=1(α2iˉd+ij+|αiγi|ˉd+ij)LBjw2j(tqij(t))12ni=1nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQiw2i(tξlji(t))12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQlw2i(tηjil(t))+ni=1nj=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)|ˉcij(t)||˜Aj(wj(t))|+ni=1nj=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)|ˉdij(t)||˜Bj(wj(tqij(t)))|}+ni=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)×nj=1nl=1|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl|wl(tξijl(t))|+LQj|wj(tηijl(t))|MQl)}
    =e2λt{ni=1(βi+γ2i+2λαiγiˉai(t)αiγiˉbi(t)α2i)wi(t)wi(t)+ni=1(λα2i+αiγiˉai(t)α2i)(wi(t))2+ni=1[ˉbi(t)αiγi+λβi+λγ2i+12nj=1(α2jˉd+ji+|αjγj|ˉd+ji)11˙q+jie2λq+jiLBi+12nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+lji11˙ξ+lji+12nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jil11˙η+jil]w2i(t)12ni=1nj=1(α2iˉd+ij+|αiγi|ˉd+ij)LBjw2j(tqij(t))12ni=1nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQiw2i(tξlji(t))12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQlw2i(tηjil(t))+ni=1nj=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)|ˉcij(t)||˜Aj(wj(t))|+ni=1nj=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)|ˉdij(t)||˜Bj(wj(tqij(t)))|}+ni=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)nj=1nl=1|θijl(t)|×(MQjLQl|wl(tξijl(t))|+LQj|wj(tηijl(t))|MQl)},  t[0,+). (2.5)

    It follows from (F1) and PQ12(P2+Q2)(P,QR) that

    ni=1nj=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)|ˉcij(t)||˜Aj(wj(t))|12ni=1nj=1α2i|ˉcij(t)|LAj((wi(t))2+w2j(t))+12ni=1nj=1|αiγi||ˉcij(t)|LAj(w2i(t)+w2j(t))=12ni=1nj=1α2i|ˉcij(t)|LAj(wi(t))2+12ni=1nj=1(|αiγi||ˉcij(t)|LAj+α2j|ˉcji(t)|LAi+|αjγj||ˉcji(t)|LAi)w2i(t),
    ni=1nj=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)|ˉdij(t)||˜Bj(wj(tqij(t)))|12ni=1nj=1α2i|ˉdij(t)|LBj((wi(t))2+w2j(tqij(t)))+12ni=1nj=1|αiγi||ˉdij(t)|LBj(w2i(t)+w2j(tqij(t)))=12ni=1nj=1α2i|ˉdij(t)|LBj(wi(t))2+12ni=1nj=1|αiγi||ˉdij(t)|LBjw2i(t)+12ni=1nj=1(α2i|ˉdij(t)|LBj+|αiγi||ˉdij(t)|LBj)w2j(tqij(t)),

    and

    ni=1(α2i|wi(t)|+|αiγi||wi(t)|)×nj=1nl=1|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl|wl(tξijl(t))|+LQj|wj(tηijl(t))|MQl)12ni=1nj=1nl=1α2i|θijl(t)|MQjLQl((wi(t))2+w2l(tξijl(t)))+12ni=1nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|MQjLQl((wi(t))2+w2l(tξijl(t)))+12ni=1nj=1nl=1α2i|θijl(t)|LQjMQl((wi(t))2+w2j(tηijl(t)))+12ni=1nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|LQjMQl((wi(t))2+w2j(tηijl(t)))=12ni=1nj=1nl=1α2i|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)(wi(t))2+12ni=1nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)(wi(t))2+12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2i+|αiγi|)|θijl(t)|MQjLQlw2l(tξijl(t))+12ni=1nj=1nl=1(α2i+|αiγi|)|θijl(t)|LQjMQlw2j(tηijl(t))=12ni=1nj=1nl=1α2i|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)(wi(t))2+12ni=1nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)(wi(t))2+12nl=1nj=1ni=1(α2l+|αlγl|)|θlji(t)|MQjLQiw2i(tξlji(t))+12nj=1ni=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)|θjil(t)|LQiMQlw2i(tηjil(t)),

    which, together with (2.4) and (2.5), entails that

    K(t)e2λt{ni=1(βi+γ2i+2λαiγiˉai(t)αiγiˉbi(t)α2i)wi(t)wi(t)+ni=1[λα2i+αiγiˉai(t)α2i+12α2inj=1(|ˉcij(t)|LAj+|ˉdij(t)|LBj)+12α2inj=1nl=1|θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)](wi(t))2+ni=1[ˉbi(t)αiγi+λβi+λγ2i+12nj=1(|ˉcij(t)|LAj+|ˉdij(t)|LBj)|αiγi|+12nj=1α2j(|ˉcji(t)|LAi+ˉd+jiLBi11˙q+jie2λq+ji)+12nj=1(|ˉcji(t)|LAi+ˉd+jiLBi11˙q+jie2λq+ji)|αjγj|+12nj=1nl=1|αiγi||θijl(t)|(MQjLQl+LQjMQl)+12nl=1nj=1(α2l+|αlγl|)θ+ljiMQjLQie2λξ+lji11˙ξ+lji+12nj=1nl=1(α2j+|αjγj|)θ+jilLQiMQle2λη+jil11˙η+jil)]w2i(t)}=e2λt{ni=1(Eλi(t)(wi(t))2+Gλi(t)w2i(t)+Hλi(t)wi(t)wi(t))}=e2λt{ni=1Eλi(t)(wi(t)+Hλi(t)2Eλi(t)wi(t))2+ni=1(Gλi(t)(Hλi(t))24Eλi(t))w2i(t)}0,  t[0,+).

    This indicates that K(t)K(0) for all t[0,+), and

    12ni=1βiw2i(t)e2λt+12ni=1(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))2e2λtK(0), t[0,+).

    Note that

    (αiwi(t)eλt+γiwi(t)eλt)2=(αiwi(t)+γiwi(t))2e2λt

    and

    αi|wi(t)|eλt|αiwi(t)eλt+γiwi(t)eλt|+|γiwi(t)eλt|,

    one can find a constant M>0 such that

    |wi(t)|Meλt,   |wi(t)|Meλt,  t0, iD,

    which proves Lemma 2.1.

    Remark 2.2. Under the assumptions adopted in Lemma 2.1, if y(t) is an equilibrium point or a periodic solution of (1.1), one can see y(t) is globally exponentially stable. Moreover, the definition of global exponential stability can be also seen in [13,16].

    Now, we set out the main result of this paper as follows.

    Theorem 3.1. Under assumptions (F1)(F3), system (1.1) possesses a global exponential stable T-anti-periodic solution.

    Proof. Denote κ(t)=(κ1(t),κ2(t),, κn(t)) be a solution of system (1.1) satisfying:

    κi(s)=φκi(s),  κi(s)=ψκi(s), τis0, φκi,ψκiC([τi,0],R), iD. (3.1)

    With the aid of (F1), one can see that

    ˉai(t+T)=ˉai(t),  ˉbi(t+T)=ˉbi(t),  qij(t+T)=qij(t),
    ηijl(t+T)=ηijl(t),  ξijl(t+T)=ξijl(t),  Ji(t+T)=Ji(t),
    (1)m+1ˉcij(t+(m+1)T)Aj(κj(t+(m+1)T))=ˉcij(t)Aj((1)m+1κj(t+(m+1)T)),
    (1)m+1ˉdij(t+(m+1)T)Bj(κj(t+(m+1)Tqij(t)))=ˉdij(t)Bj((1)m+1κj(t+(m+1)Tqij(t))),

    and

    (1)m+1θijl(t+(m+1)T)Qj(κj(t+(m+1)Tηijl(t)))Ql(κl(t+(m+1)Tξijl(t)))
    =θijl(t)Qj((1)m+1κj(t+(m+1)Tηijl(t)))Ql((1)m+1κl(t+(m+1)Tξijl(t))),

    where  tR and i,j,lD.

    Consequently, for any nonnegative integer m,

        ((1)m+1κi(t+(m+1)T))=ˉai(t)((1)m+1κi(t+(m+1)T))ˉbi(t)((1)m+1κi(t+(m+1)T))+nj=1ˉcij(t)Aj((1)m+1κj(t+(m+1)T))+nj=1ˉdij(t)Bj((1)m+1κj(t+(m+1)Tqij(t)))+nj=1nl=1θijl(t)×Qj((1)m+1κj(t+(m+1)Tηijl(t)))×Ql((1)m+1κl(t+(m+1)Tξijl(t)))+Ji(t), for all iD,t+(m+1)T0. (3.2)

    Clearly, (1)m+1κ(t+(m+1)T) (t+(m+1)T0) satisfies (1.1), and v(t)=κ(t+T) is a solution of system (1.1) involving initial values:

    φvi(s)=κi(s+T),ψvi(s)=κi(s+T), for all s[τi,0],iD.

    Thus, with the aid of Lemma 2.1, we can pick a constant M=M(φκ,ψκ,φv,ψv) satisfying

    |κi(t)vi(t)|Meλt,   |κi(t)vi(t)|Meλt,  for all t0,iD.

    Hence,

    |(1)pκi(t+pT)(1)p+1κi(t+(p+1)T)|=|κi(t+pT)vi(t+pT)|Meλ(t+pT),|((1)pκi(t+pT))((1)p+1κi(t+(p+1)T))|=|κi(t+pT)vi(t+pT)|Meλ(t+pT),} iD, t+pT0. (3.3)

    Consequently,

    (1)m+1κi(t+(m+1)T)=κi(t)+mp=0[(1)p+1κi(t+(p+1)T)(1)pκi(t+pT)] (iD)

    and

    ((1)m+1κi(t+(m+1)T))=κi(t)+mp=0[((1)p+1κi(t+(p+1)T))((1)pκi(t+pT))] (iD).

    Therefore, (3.3) suggests that there exists a continuous differentiable function y(t)=(y1(t),y2(t),,yn(t)) such that {(1)mκ(t+mT)}m1 and {((1)mκ(t+mT))}m1 are uniformly convergent to y(t) and y(t) on any compact set of R, respectively.

    Moreover,

    y(t+T)=limm+(1)mκ(t+T+mT)=lim(m+1)+(1)m+1κ(t+(m+1)T)=y(t)

    involves that y(t) is Tanti-periodic on R. It follows from (F1)-(F3) and the continuity on (3.2) that {(κ(t+(m+1)T)}m1 uniformly converges to a continuous function on any compact set of R. Furthermore, for any compact set of R, setting m+, we obtain

    yi(t)=ˉai(t)yi(t)ˉbi(t)yi(t)+nj=1ˉcij(t)Aj(yj(t))+nj=1ˉdij(t)Bj(yj(tqij(t)))+nj=1nl=1θijl(t)Qj(yj(tηijl(t)))Ql(yl(tξijl(t)))+Ji(t),,iD,

    which involves that y(t) is a Tanti-periodic solution of (1.1). Again from Lemma 2.1, we gain that y(t) is globally exponentially stable. This finishes the proof of Theorem 3.1.

    Remark 3.1. For inertial neural networks without high-order terms respectively, suppose

    |ˉaiˉbi|<2, Ai  and  Bi are bounded, iD, (3.4)

    and

    |ˉaiˉbi+1|<1,iD, (3.5)

    the authors gained the existence and stability on periodic solutions in [10,11] and anti-periodic solutions in [12]. Moreover, the reduced-order method was crucial in [10,11,12] when anti-periodicity and periodicity of second-order inertial neural networks were considered. However, (3.4) and (3.5) have been abandoned in Theorem 3.1 and the reduced-order method has been substituted in this paper. Therefore, our results on anti-periodicity of high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks are new and supplemental in nature.

    Example 4.1. Let n=2, and consider a class of high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks in the form of

    {x1(t)=14.92x1(t)27.89x1(t)+2.28(sint)A1(x1(t))   +2.19(cost)A2(x2(t))   0.84(cos2t)B1(x1(t0.2sin2t))+2.41(cos2t)B2(x2(t0.3sin2t))   +4(sin2t)Q1(x1(t0.4sin2t))Q2(x2(t0.5sin2t))+55sint,x2(t)=15.11x2(t)31.05x2(t)1.88(sint)A1(x1(t))   2.33(cost)A2(x2(t))   2.18(sin2t)B1(x1(t0.2cos2t))+3.18(cos2t)B2(x2(t0.3cos2t))   +3.8(sin2t)Q1(x1(t0.4cos2t))Q2(x2(t0.5cos2t))+48sint, (4.1)

    where t0, A1(u)=A2(u)=135|u|, B1(u)=B2(u)=148u, Q1(u)=Q2(u)=155arctanu.

    Using a direct calculation, one can check that (4.1) satisfies (2.4) and (F1)(F3). Applying Theorem 3.1, it is obvious that system (4.1) has a globally exponentially stable π-anti-periodic solution. Simulations reflect that the theoretical anti-periodicity is in sympathy with the numerically observed behavior (Figures 1 and 2).

    Figure 1.  Numerical solutions x(t) to system (4.1) with initial values: (φ1(s),φ2(s),ψ1(s),ψ2(s))(1,3,0,0),(2,1,0,0),(2,3,0,0),s[5,0].
    Figure 2.  Numerical solutions x(t) to system (4.1) with initial value (φ1(s),φ2(s),ψ1(s),ψ2(s))(1,3,0,0),(2,1,0,0),(2,3,0,0),s[5,0].

    Example 4.2. Regard the following high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks involving time-varying delays and coefficients:

    {x1(t)=(14+0.9|sint|)x1(t)(27+0.8|cost|)x1(t)+2.28(sint)A1(x1(t))   +2.19(cost)A2(x2(t))   0.84(cos2t)B1(x1(t0.2sin2t))+2.41(cos2t)B2(x2(t0.3sin2t))   +4(sint)Q1(x1(t0.4sin2t))Q2(x2(t0.5sin2t))+100sint,x2(t)=(15+0.1|cost|)x2(t)(31+0.1|sint|)x2(t)1.88(sint)A1(x1(t))   2.33(cost)A2(x2(t))   2.18(sin2t)B1(x1(t0.2cos2t))+3.18(cos2t)B2(x2(t0.3cos2t))   +3.8(sint)Q1(x1(t0.4cos2t))Q2(x2(t0.5cos2t))+200sint, (4.2)

    where t0, A1(u)=A2(u)=135|u|, B1(u)=B2(u)=148u, Q1(u)=Q2(u)=1110(|x+1||x1|). Then, by Theorem 3.1, one can find that all solutions of networks (4.2) are convergent to a π-anti-periodic solution (See Figures 3 and 4).

    Figure 3.  Numerical solutions x(t) to system (4.2) with initial values: (φ1(s),φ2(s),ψ1(s),ψ2(s))(6,8,0,0),(7,6,0,0),(7,7,0,0),s[0.5,0].
    Figure 4.  Numerical solutions x(t) to system (4.2) with initial value (φ1(s),φ2(s),ψ1(s),ψ2(s))(6,8,0,0),(7,6,0,0),(7,7,0,0),s[0.5,0].

    Remark 4.1. From the figures 14, one can see that the solution is similar to sinusoidal oscillation, and there exists a π-anti-periodic solution satisfying x(t+π)=x(t). To the author's knowledge, the anti-periodicity on high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks involving time-varying delays has never been touched by using the non-reduced order method. Manifestly, the assumptions (3.4) and (3.5) adopted in [10,11] are invalid in systems (4.1) and (4.2). In addition, the most recently papers [10,11] only considered the polynomial power stability of some proportional time-delay systems, but not involved the exponential power stability of the addressed systems. And the results in [35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74, 75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82] have not touched on the anti-periodicity of inertial neural networks. This entails that the corresponding conclusions in [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48, 49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82] and the references cited therein can not be applied to show the anti-periodic convergence for systems (4.1) and (4.2).

    In this paper, abandoning the reduced order method, we apply inequality techniques and Lyapunov function method to establish the existence and global exponential stability of anti-periodic solutions for a class of high-order inertial Hopfield neural networks involving time-varying delays and anti-periodic environments. The obtained results are essentially new and complement some recently published results. The method proposed in this article furnishes a possible approach for studying anti-periodic on other types high-order inertial neural networks such as shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks, BAM neural networks, Cohen-Grossberg neural networks and so on.

    The authors would like to express the sincere appreciation to the editor and reviewers for their helpful comments in improving the presentation and quality of the paper.

    The authors confirm that they have no conflict of interest.



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