Existence and global asymptotic stability of periodic solutions for Hopfield neural networks with discontinuous activations

In this paper, we study a class of neural networks with discontinuous activations, which include bidirectional associative memory networks and cellular networks as its special cases. By the Leray–Schauder alternative theorem, matrix theory and generalized Lyapunov approach, we obtain some sufficient conditions ensuring the existence, uniqueness and global asymptotic stability of the periodic solution. Our results are less restrictive than previously known criteria and can be applied to neural networks with a broad range of activation functions assuming neither boundedness nor monotonicity.