Bifurcation analysis and existence of periodic solutions in a simple neural network with delays

Results are provided here about the stability and bifurcation of periodic solutions for a (neural) network with n elements where delays between adjacent units and external inputs are included. The particular cases n=2 and n=3 are discussed in details, to explicitly illustrate the role of the delays in the corresponding bifurcation sets and the stability properties, like a Hopf bifurcation, a pitchfork bifurcation, and a Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation.