<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JAMP</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2327-4352</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/jamp.2016.47129</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JAMP-68837</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Razumikhin-Type Theorems on p-th Moment Stability for Stochastic Switching Nonlinear Systems with Delay
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Haibo</surname><given-names>Gu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Caixia</surname><given-names>Gao</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>School of Mathematical Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>06</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>04</volume><issue>07</issue><fpage>1237</fpage><lpage>1244</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>24</day>	<month>March</month>	<year>2016</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>12</month>	<year>July</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>15</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
   This paper mainly tends to utilize Razumikhin-type theorems to investigate p-th moment stability for a class of stochastic switching nonlinear systems with delay. Based on the Lyapunov-Razumik- hin methods, some sufficient conditions are derived to check the stability of stochastic switching nonlinear systems with delay. One numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results. 
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Stochastic Switching Delay System</kwd><kwd> p-th Moment Stability</kwd><kwd> Lyapunov-Razumikhin Approach</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Stochastic switching system is an indispensable class of hybrid dynamical systems, which is composed of a family of stochastic subsystems and a rule that orchestrates the switching among them. Yet, there inevitably exists delay phenomenon in the practical systems like physics, biology and economic [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref2">2</xref>]. So it is important for us to study stochastic switching systems with delay. Over the previous few decades, stochastic switching delay systems have received much attention due to their potential applications in many fields, such as the control of mechanical systems, automotive industry, chemical and electrical engineering [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref4">4</xref>].</p><p>It is well-known that stability is the major issue of control theory. Lyapunov-Razumikhin technique has been a powerful and effective method for investigating stability. Razumikhin developed this technique to study the stability of deterministic systems with delay in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref6">6</xref>], then, Mao extended this technique to stochastic functional differential equations [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref7">7</xref>] and neutral stochastic functional differential equations [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref8">8</xref>] to investigate p-th moment exponential stability of this systems. Later, this technique was appropriately developed and extended to some other stochastic systems, such as hybrid stochastic delay interval systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref9">9</xref>] and impulsive stochastic delay differential systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref10">10</xref>]. Recently, some researchers have introduced <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-type function and extended the stability results to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability, including the exponentialstability as a special case in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref11">11</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref12">12</xref>]. In [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.68837-ref13">13</xref>], the researchers utilize multiple Lyapunov functions investigate the stability of stochastic switching nonlinear systems.</p><p>To the best of our knowledge, there are no results based on the Razumikhin approach referring to the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability of stochastic switching nonlinear systems with delay. The main aim of this paper is to attempt to investigate p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability of stochastic switching delay nonlinear systems. By the aid of Lyapunov-Ra- zumikhin approach, we obtain the p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability of stochastic switching systems with delay in Section 3. An example is presented to illustrate the main results in Section 4. Finally, the conclusions are given in Section 5.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Preliminaries</title><p>Consider a family of stochastic switching delay nonlinear systems described by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula52"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x9.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x10.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the switching signal, let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a switching sequence and the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>- th subsystem is active at time interval<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the switching instant, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. System (1) is consisted with many stochastic subsystems <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which are driven</p><p>by switching signal<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is finite,</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is an m-dimensional independent standard Wiener process, and the underlying complete probability space is taken to be the quartet <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with a filtration <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfied the usual conditions (i.e. it is increasing and right continuous while <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> contains all P-null sets), functions<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are both measurable and let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Definition 1. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is said to be <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-type function, if it satisfies the following conditions:</p><p>1) It is continuous, monotone decreasing and differentiable;</p><p>2) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;</p><p>3)<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;</p><p>4) for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Definition 2. For<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, stochastic switching delay nonlinear systems (1) is said to be p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stable, if there exist positive constants <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and function<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula53"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x43.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stable in mean square, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is p-th moment exponential stable, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is p-th moment polynomial stable.</p><p>Before giving the main results, let us introduce <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> formula. For system (1), give any function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and define an operator <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x49.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> described by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula54"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x51.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula55"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x52.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Main Results</title><p>In this section, we shall establish Razumikhin-type theorems on the p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stable for stochastic delay nonlinear systems by using Razumikhin technique and Lyapunov functions. Before giving the efficient theorem, let us give some assumptions to the switching signal<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Assumption 1. Switching signal <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x55.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is right continuous and state-dependent.</p><p>Assumption 2. At each switching instant<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the state trajectory is not jumped.</p><p>Then, let us turn our attention to system (1) and give a sufficient result.</p><p>Theorem 1. For stochastic switching delay nonlinear systems (1), if there exist a group of Lyapunov functions <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and positive constants<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula56"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x59.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula57"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x60.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and those <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfying</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula58"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x64.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>and at each switching instant<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula59"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x67.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Then, for any initial<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> to stochastic</p><p>switching delay nonlinear system (1). Moreover, the system (1) is p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stable and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula60"><label>. (7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x73.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Fix the initial data <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> arbitrarily and write <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> simply. When <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is</p><p>replaced by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, if we can prove (7) for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then the desired result is obtained.</p><p>Given switching signal <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and instant <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for arbitrary, assume that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the last switching instant before<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, i.e. there is no switching occur on the interval<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x82.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be arbitrary, if we can prove</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula61"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x85.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>we will complete this proof. By condition (6), this result follows from</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula62"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x86.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula63"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x88.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the continuity of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, it is obvious that</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x90.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>We claim that (8) holds for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x91.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>In order to do so, we first prove that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula64"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x92.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>That is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula65"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x93.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>This can be verified by a contradiction, suppose that inequality (9) is not right, then by the continuity of</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a smallest <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as well</p><p>as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x99.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x100.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, by condition (3), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula66"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x103.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x105.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> since<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x105.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x106.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we, therefore, obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula67"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x107.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Therefore, for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x108.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula68"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x109.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (4), we can obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula69"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x110.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the continuity of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for all sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x111.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula70"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x114.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> formula and continuity of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for all sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we can obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula71"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x118.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (4)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula72"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x119.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is a contradiction. Hence, inequality (9) holds for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x120.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and inequality (8) is right for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x120.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Now, let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. We assume that inequality (8) holds for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, i.e.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula73"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x124.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>That is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula74"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x125.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We will prove that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula75"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x126.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Suppose that inequality (14) is not right,</p><p>By condition (6) and inequality (12), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula76"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x127.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>That is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula77"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x128.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then by the continuity of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a smallest <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as well as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x132.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x134.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all suffi-</p><p>ciently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x137.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from (15), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula78"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x138.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x140.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> since<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x140.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x141.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we, therefore, obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula79"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x142.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Therefore, for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x143.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula80"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x144.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (4), we can obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula81"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x145.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the continuity of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for all sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula82"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x149.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> formula and continuity of<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for all sufficiently small<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we can obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula83"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x153.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (4)</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula84"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x154.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is a contradiction. Hence, inequality (14) holds for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x155.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Therefore, by mathematical induction we obtain (8) holds for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Then, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x157.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x158.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>That is</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x159.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Thus, the system (1) is p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x160.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stable.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Example</title><p>In this section, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the main results established in Section 3 as follows.</p><p>Consider a family of stochastic switching delay nonlinear systems</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula85"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x161.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is switching signal. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a switching sequence and the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> th subsystem is active at time interval<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x165.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x165.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is switching instant, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x165.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x167.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x165.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x167.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x168.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>We choose<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x172.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x173.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x176.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x178.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>When<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we choose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the first subsystem; when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we choose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x181.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x182.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x183.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x184.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the second subsystem.</p><p>For the first subsystem, we choose<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x186.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x186.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x187.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula86"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x188.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x189.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x189.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x190.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>For the second subsystem, we choose<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x191.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x191.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x191.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x192.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x193.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.68837-formula87"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x194.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>If<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>By Theorem 1, we can choose<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x199.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which means that the conditions of Theorem 1 are satisfied. So the stochastic switching delay nonlinear systems are p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x199.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x200.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability. The switching signal and the state trajectory are presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>, respectively.</p><p>Remark. In the example, a stochastic switching delay nonlinear system is constructed to show the efficiency of the results. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> describes switching signal changes over the time. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> depicts state trajectory changes over the time, the blue line describes the systems with delay and the red describes the systems without delay.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Conclusion</title><p>In this paper, p-th moment <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability has been investigated for stochastic switching nonlinear systems with delay. Some sufficient conditions have been derived to check the stability criteria by using the Lyapunov-Ra-</p><fig id="fig1"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> Switching signal of the stochastic switching systems with delay</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x202.png"/></fig><fig id="fig2"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> The trajectory of the stochastic switching delay systems’ state</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x203.png"/></fig><p>zumikhin methods. A numerical example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the main results. Our future research will focus on <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability of neutral stochastic switched nonlinear systems and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/68837x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stability of impulsive stochastic switched delay nonlinear systems.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 11261033 and the Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Foundation of Inner Mongolia under Grant 1402020201336.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Haibo Gu,Caixia Gao, (2016) Razumikhin-Type Theorems on p-th Moment Stability for Stochastic Switching Nonlinear Systems with Delay. 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