Exploration on bifurcation for an incommensurate five-neuron fractional-order BAM neural network involving multiple delays

Abstract

Some qualitative analyses of bifurcations for an incommensurate fractional-order neural network with delays are considered. At first, we display an incommensurate five-neuron fractional-order bidirectional associative memory neural network (FOBAMNN) with four delays. Next, the existence and uniqueness of the solution are analyzed. Afterward, from the perspective of the two different cases of delays inducing bifurcations, some sufficient criteria of the stability and the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation are established. Some numerical simulations are designed to verify the feasibility and validity of the obtained theorems. In addition, the effects of the delays on the stability and bifurcation of the integer-order neural network and the fractional-order neural network are discussed and some meaningful results are presented in the end.