Global asymptotical stability in a rational difference equation

In this paper we prove a global attractivity result for the unique positive equilibrium point of a difference equation,which improves and generalizes some known ones in the existing literature.Especially,our results completely solve an open problem and some conjectures proposed in[1,2,3,4].

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTICAL STABILITY OF AN OBLIGATE LOTKA-VOLTERRA MUTUALISM MODEL

By constructing a suitable Lyapunov function,sufficient conditions which ensure the global asymptotical stability of the positive equilibrium and boundary equilibrium of an obligate Lotka-Volterra mutualism model are obtained,respectively.It is shown that the conditions which ensure the local stability of the nonnegative equilibria is enough to ensure their global asymptotical stability.Our result supplements and complements some known result.

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTICAL PROPERTIES FOR A DIFFUSED HBV INFECTION MODEL WITH CTL IMMUNE RESPONSE AND NONLINEAR INCIDENCE

This article proposes a diffused hepatitis B virus （HBV） model with CTL immune response and nonlinear incidence for the control of viral infections. By means of different Lyapunov functions, the global asymptotical properties of the viral-free equilibrium and immune-free equilibrium of the model are obtained. Global stability of the positive equilibrium of the model is also considered. The results show that the free diffusion of the virus has no effect on the global stability of such HBV infection problem with Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions.

PERSISTENCE AND GLOBAL STABILITY FOR A THREE-SPECIES RATIO-DEPENDENT PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEM WITH TIME DELAYS IN TWO-PATCH ENVIRONMENTS

A three-species ratio-dependent predator-prey diffusion model with time delays is investigated. It is shown that the system is uniformly persistent under some appropriate conditions, and sufficient conditions axe obtained for the global stability of the positive equilibrium of the system.

GLOBAL STABILITY OF AN SIRS EPIDEMIC MODEL WITH DELAYS

In this article, an SIRS epidemic model spread by vectors （mosquitoes） which have an incubation time to become infectious is formulated. It is shown that a disease-free equilibrium point is globally stable if no endemic equilibrium point exists. Further, the endemic equilibrium point （if it exists） is globally stable with a respect ＂weak delay＂. Some known results are generalized.

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY IN N-SPECIES NONAUTONOMOUS LOTKA-VOLTERRACOMPETITIVE SYSTEMS WITH DELAYS

A delayed n-species nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra type competitive system without dominating instantaneous negative feedback is investigated. By means of a suitable Lyapunov functional, sufficient conditions are derived for the global asymptotic stability of the positive solutions of the system. As a corollary, it is shown that the global asymptotic stability of the positive solution is maintained provided that the delayed negative feedbacks dominate other interspecific interaction effects with delays and the delays are sufficiently small.

GLOBAL STABILITY OF EXTENDED MULTI-GROUP SIR EPIDEMIC MODELS WITH PATCHES THROUGH MIGRATION AND CROSS PATCH INFECTION

In this article, we establish the global stability of an endemic equilibrium of multi-group SIR epidemic models, which have not only an exchange of individuals between patches through migration but also cross patch infection between different groups. As a result, we partially generalize the recent result in the article [16].

GLOBAL STABILITY OF SIRS EPIDEMIC MODELS WITH A CLASS OF NONLINEAR INCIDENCE RATES AND DISTRIBUTED DELAYS

In this article, we establish the global asymptotic stability of a disease-free equilibrium and an endemic equilibrium of an SIRS epidemic model with a class of nonlin- ear incidence rates and distributed delays. By using strict monotonicity of the incidence function and constructing a Lyapunov functional, we obtain sufficient conditions under which the endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable. When the nonlinear inci- dence rate is a saturated incidence rate, our result provides a new global stability condition for a small rate of immunity loss.

ON GLOBAL STABILITY OF A NONRESIDENT COMPUTER VIRUS MODEL

In this paper, we establish new sufficient conditions for the infected equilibrium of a nonresident computer virus model to be globally asymptotically stable. Our results extend two kind of known results in recent literature.

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF THE PERIODIC LOTKA－VOLTERRA SYSTEM WITH TWO－PREDATORS AND ONE－PREY

The three species Lotka-Volterra periodic model with two predators and one prey is considered.A set of easily verifiable sufficient conditions is obtained.Finallyt an example is given to illustrate the feasibility of these conditions.

GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY FOR A NONLINEAR DELAY DIFFERENCE EQUATION

In this paper,a sufficient condition for the global asymptotic stability of the solutions of the following nonlinear delay difference equation is obtained, xn+ 1=xn+xn- 1xn- 2 +a xnxn- 1+xn- 2 +a, n =0 ,1 ,..., where a∈ [0 ,∞ ) and the initial values x- 2 ,x- 1,x0 ∈ (0 ,∞ ) .As a special case,a conjecture by Ladas is confirmed.

Global asymptotic stability for Hopfield-type neural networks with diffusion effects

The existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability for the equilibrium of Hopfield-type neural networks with diffusion effects are studied. When the activation functions are monotonously nondecreasing, differentiable, and the interconnected matrix is related to the Lyapunov diagonal stable matrix, the sufficient conditions guaranteeing the existence of the equilibrium of the system are obtained by applying the topological degree theory. By means of constructing the suitable average Lyapunov functions, the global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium of the system is also investigated. It is shown that the equilibrium （if it exists） is globally asymptotically stable and this implies that the equilibrium of the system is unique.

Global stability analysis of a ratio-dependent predator-prey system

A ratio dependent predator-prey system with Holling type Ⅲ functional response is considered. A sufficient condition of the global asymptotic stability for the positive equilibrium and existence of the limit cycle are given by studying locally asymp- totic stability of the positive equilibrium. The condition under which positive equilibrium is not a hyperbolic equilibrium is investigated using Hopf bifurcation.

BOUNDEDNESS AND PERSISTENCE AND GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY FOR A CLASS OF DELAY DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS WITH HIGHER ORDER

Some sufficient, conditions for boundedness and persistence and global asymptotic stability of solutions for a class of delay difference equations with higher order are obtained, which partly solve G. Ladas' two open problems and extend some known results.

New Delay-dependent Global Asymptotic Stability Condition for Hopfield Neural Networks with Time-varying Delays

This paper deals with the global asymptotic stability problem for Hopfield neural networks with time-varying delays. By resorting to the integral inequality and constructing a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, a novel delay-dependent condition is established to guarantee the existence and global asymptotic stability of the unique equilibrium point for a given delayed Hopfield neural network. This criterion is expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities （LMIs）, which can be easily checked by utilizing the recently developed algorithms for solving LMIs. Examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and reduced conservatism of the proposed condition.

Global Stability for a Diffusive System with Time Delay and Functional Response

In this paper,by applying Comparison Theorem of differential equation,Continuation Theorem of coincidence degree theory,Barbalat Lemma and Lyapunov Function,a diffusion system with distributive time delay and ratio-dependence functional response is studied.It is proved that the system is uniformly persistent under appropriate conditions.Further,if the system is a periodic one,it can have a strictly positive periodic solution which is globally asymptotically stable under appropriations.Some new results are obtained.

Global Stability and Hopf Bifurcation for a Virus Dynamics Model with General Incidence Rate and Delayed CTL Immune Response

In this work, we investigate an HIV-1 infection model with a general incidence rate and delayed CTL immune response. The model admits three possible equilibria, an infection-free equilibrium E*0, CTL-inactivated infection equilibrium E*1 and CTL-activated infection equilibrium E*2. We prove that in the absence of CTL immune delay, the model has exactly the basic behaviour model, for all positive intracellular delays, the global dynamics are determined by two threshold parameters R0 and R1, if R0 ≤ 1, E*0 is globally asymptotically stable, if R1 ≤ 1 < R0, E*1 is globally asymptotically stable and if R1 >1, E*2 is globally asymptotically stable. But if the CTL immune response delay is different from zero, then the behaviour of the model at E*2 changes completely, although R1 > 1, a Hopf bifurcation at E*2 is established. In the end, we present some numerical simulations.

Global Stability of a Three-Species System with Attractive Prey-Taxis

This paper reports the global asymptotic stability of a three-species predator-prey system involving the prey-taxis. With the assumptions, we establish the global asymptotic stability results of its equilibria, respectively. Our results illustrate that 1) the global asymptotic stability of the semi-trivial equilibrium does not involve the prey-taxis coefficients χ, ξ;2) the global asymptotic stability of two boundary equilibria relies on a single prey-taxis coefficient χ and ξ, respectively;3) the global asymptotic stability of the unique positive equilibrium depends on two prey-taxis coefficients χ and ξ.

GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF SOME EPIDEMIC MODELS WITH GENERAL CONTACT RATE AND CONSTANT IMMIGRATION

An epidemic models of SIR type and SIRS type with general contact rate and constant immigration of each class were discussed by means of theory of limit system and suitable Liapunov functions. In the absence of input of infectious individuals, the threshold of existence of endemic equilibrium is found.For the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium of corresponding SIR model, the sufficient and necessary conditions of global asymptotical stabilities are all obtained.For corresponding SIRS model, the sufficient conditions of global asymptotical stabilities of the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium are obtained. In the existence of input of infectious individuals, the models have no disease-free equilibrium. For corresponding SIR model, the endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable; for corresponding SIRS model, the sufficient conditions of global asymptotical stability of the endemic equilibrium are obtained.

Stability of stochastic neural networks with Markovian jumping parameters

The global asymptotical stability for a class of stochastic delayed neural networks （SDNNs） with Maxkovian jumping parameters is considered. By applying Lyapunov functional method and Ito＇s differential rule, new delay-dependent stability conditions are derived. All results are expressed in terms of linear matrix inequality （LMI）, and a numerical example is presented to illustrate the correctness and less conservativeness of the proposed method.