This paper deals with the dissipativity and synchronization control of fractional-order memristive neural networks (FOMNNs) with reaction-diffusion terms. By means of fractional Halanay inequality, Wirtinger inequality, and Lyapunov functional, some sufficient conditions are provided to ensure global dissipativity and exponential synchronization of FOMNNs with reaction-diffusion terms, respectively. The underlying model and the obtained results are more general since the reaction-diffusion terms are first introduced into FOMNNs. The given conditions are easy to be checked, and the correctness of the obtained results is confirmed by a living example. KEYWORDS fractional-order, memristive neural network, reaction-diffusion term MSC CLASSIFICATION 34H05; 34D06; 34K37
INTRODUCTIONChua 1 first proposed the concept of memristor to describe the relationship between magnetic flux and charge, yet its actual implementation was made by HP team in 2008 with doped titanium dioxide. 2 Since then, memristor has attracted world-class attention due to its potential application in the next generation of human brain-like computers, and many excellent researches have emerged. 3-6 Wu and Zeng 3 provide an exponential stabilization condition of memristive neural networks (MNNs) in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), and Yang et al 4 study exponential synchronization of MNNs with heterogeneous delays by using interval matrix method to deal with memristive coefficients. A less conservative criterion for synchronization of MNNs is obtained in Zhang et al 5 by introducing an adjustable parameter into a discontinuous controller. For delayed MNNs, Wang and Shen 6 develop some algebraic criteria for the finite-time stabilizability by using M-matrix and also establishes the instabilizability conditions. It is worth mentioning that the above models are only first-order dynamical systems and do not involve fractional-order ones.Differing from integer-order derivative, fractional-order derivative can better depict some nonclassical phenomena in natural science and engineering applications. 7 Then, it has potential applications in signal processing, electromagnetism, quantum evolution of complex systems, and so on. 8 As a result, fractional-order neural network (FONN) has entered the public field of vision, and some entertaining works have been published. 7-13 For instance, the stability of the equilibrium point for complex-valued delayed FOMNNs is analyzed in Wei et al 7 by nonlinear measure method and contraction mapping theory, and the adaptive synchronization control of FOMNNs with time delay is discussed in Bao et al 9 via a fractional-order inequality. The Mittag-Leffler stabilization condition for a class of FOMNNs is established in Wu and Math Meth Appl Sci. 2019;42:7494-7505. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/mma