On a heavy-tailed distribution and the stability of an equilibrium in a distributed delay symmetric network

Abstract

We consider a static artificial neural network model endowed with multiple unbounded S-type distributed time delays. The delay kernels are described by the Pareto distribution, which is a heavy-tailed power-law probability distribution frequently employed in the characterisation of many observable phenomena. We give a characterisation of the effects of the shape and the scale of the Pareto delay distribution on the stability of an equilibrium of the network.