Generalized criteria on delay-dependent stability of highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic systems

Our recent paper (Fei W, etal. Delay dependent stability of highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic systems. Automatica. 2017; 82:165-170) is the first to establish delay-dependent criteria for highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic differential delay equations (SDDEs) (by highly nonlinear, we mean that the coefficients of the SDDEs do not have to satisfy the linear growth condition). This is an important breakthrough in the stability study as all existing delay stability criteria before could only be applied to delay equations where their coefficients are either linear or nonlinear but bounded by linear functions (namely, satisfy the linear growth condition). In this continuation, we will point out one restrictive condition imposed in our earlier paper. We will then develop our ideas and methods there to remove this restrictive condition so that our improved results cover a much wider class of hybrid SDDEs.