Mean square stability with general decay rate of nonlinear neutral stochastic function differential equations in the $ G $-framework

<abstract><p>Few results seem to be known about the stability with general decay rate of nonlinear neutral stochastic function differential equations driven by $ G $-Brownain motion ($ G $-NSFDEs in short). This paper focuses on the $ G $-NSFDEs, and the coefficients of these considered $ G $-NSFDEs can be allowed to be nonlinear. It is first proved the existence and uniqueness of the global solution of a $ G $-NSFDE. It is then obtained the trivial solution of the $ G $-NSFDE is mean square stable with general decay rate (including the trivial solution of the $ G $-NSFDE is mean square exponentially stable and the trivial solution of the $ G $-NSFDE is mean square polynomially stable) by $ G $-Lyapunov functions technique. In this paper, auxiliary functions are used to dominate the Lyapunov function and the diffusion operator. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the obtained theory.</p></abstract>

Food Between Life and Death in the Cinema of Marco Ferreri and Itami Jūzō

International cinema of every era has told of the relationship between men, women and food. In many cases it is presented as a common thread capable of binding every life impulse: sex, spirituality, greed, even death. In the cases of Italy and Japan, there are two directors in particular for whom the theme recurs with greater incisiveness: Marco Ferreri and Itami Jūzo, and especially in their works La Grande Abbuffata and Tanpopo. Both movies also represent a critique of the consumer society and the general decay of civil entourage. The characters thus contribute to representing a sort of mythology of the human being, each distinct in a grotesque, surreal and in many cases parodic way while they use food to translate their impulses. This essay aims to highlight the similarities between the main narrative strategies used by the two directors.

General decay projective synchronization of memristive competitive neural networks via nonlinear controller

In this paper, the general decay projective synchronization of a class of memristive competitive neural networks with time delay is studied. Firstly, a nonlinear feedback controller is designed, which does not require any knowledge about the activation functions. Then, some new and applicable conditions dependent on the Lyapunov function and the inequality techniques are obtained to guarantee the general decay projective synchronization of the considered systems under the developed controller. Unlike other forms of synchronization, projective synchronization can improve communication security due to the scaling constant’s unpredictability. In addition, the polynomial synchronization, asymptotical synchronization, and exponential synchronization can be seen as the special cases of the general decay projective synchronization. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

General decay and blow up of solutions for a variable-exponent viscoelastic double-Kirchhoff type wave equation with nonlocal degenerate damping

In this paper we consider a viscoelastic double-Kirchhoff type wave equation of the form $$ u_{tt}-M_{1}(\|\nabla u\|^{2})\Delta u-M_{2}(\|\nabla u\|_{p(x)})\Delta_{p(x)}u+(g\ast\Delta u)(x,t)+\sigma(\|\nabla u\|^{2})h(u_{t})=\phi(u), $$ where the functions $M_{1},M_{2}$ and $\sigma, \phi$ are real valued functions and $(g\ast\nabla u)(x,t)$ is the viscoelastic term which are introduced later. Under appropriate conditions for the data and exponents, the general decay result and blow-up of solutions are proved with positive initial energy. This study extends and improves the previous results in the literature to viscoelastic double-Kirchhoff type equation with degenerate nonlocal damping and variable-exponent nonlinearities.