<?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.2016.48172</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JAMP-70158</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 General Decay Stability of Impulsive Stochastic Functional Differential Systems with Markovian Switching
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhiyu</surname><given-names>Zhan</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>04</day><month>08</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>04</volume><issue>08</issue><fpage>1617</fpage><lpage>1629</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>8</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2016</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>26</month>	<year>August</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>29</day>	<month>August</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>
 
 
  In this paper, the Razumikhin approach is applied to the study of both 
  p-th moment and almost sure stability on a general decay for a class of impulsive stochastic functional differential systems with Markovian switching. Based on the Lyapunov-Razumikhin methods, some sufficient conditions are derived to check the stability of impulsive stochastic functional differential systems with Markovian switching. One numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Impulsive Stochastic Functional Differential System</kwd><kwd> &lt;i&gt;p&lt;/i&gt;-th Moment Stability</kwd><kwd> Almost Sure Stability</kwd><kwd> Lyapunov-Razumikhin Approach</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Impulsive stochastic systems with Markovian switching is a class of hybrid dynamical systems, which is composed of both the logical switching rule of continuous-time finite-state Markovian process and the state represented by a stochastic differential system [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref1">1</xref>] . Because of the presence of both continuous dynamics and discrete events, these types of models are capable of describing many practical systems in many areas, including social science, physical science, finance, control engineering, mechanical and industry. So this kind of systems have received much attention, recently (for instance, see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref2">2</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref5">5</xref>] ).</p><p>It is well-known that stability is the major issue in the study of control theory, one of the most important techniques applied in the investigation of stability for various classes of stochastic differential systems is based on a stochastic version of the Lyapunov direct method. However, the so-called Razumikhin technique combined with Lyapunov functions has also been a powerful and effective method in the study of stability. Recalled that Razumikhin developed this technique to study the stability of deterministic systems with delay in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref7">7</xref>] , then, Mao extended this technique to stochastic functional differential systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref8">8</xref>] . This technique has become very popular in recent years since it is extensively applied to investigate many phenomena in physics, biology, finance, etc.</p><p>Mao incorporated the Razumikhin approach in stochastic functional differential equations [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref9">9</xref>] and in neutral stochastic functional differential equations [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref10">10</xref>] to investigate both p-th moment and almost sure exponential stability of these systems (see also [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref11">11</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref13">13</xref>] , for instance). Later, this technique was appropriately developed and extended to some other stochastic functional differential systems, especially important in applications, such as stochastic functional differential systems with infinite delay [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref14">14</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref16">16</xref>] , hybrid stochastic delay interval systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref17">17</xref>] and impulsive stochastic delay differential systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref18">18</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref20">20</xref>] . Recently, some researchers have introduced y-type function and extended the stability results to the general decay stability, including the exponential stability as a special case in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref21">21</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.70158-ref23">23</xref>] , which has a wide applicability.</p><p>In the above cited papers, both the p-th moment and almost sure stability on a general decay are investigated, but mostly used in stochastic differential equations. And As far as I know, a little work has been done on the impulsive stochastic differential equations or systems. In this paper, we will close this gap by extending the general decay stability to the impulsive stochastic differential systems. To the best of our knowledge, there are no results based on the general decay stability of impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian switching. And the main aim of the present paper is attempt to investigate the p-th moment and almost sure stability on a general decay of impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian switching. Since the delay phenomenon and the Markovian switching exists among impulsive stochastic systems, the whole systems become more complex and may oscillate or be not stable, we introduce Razumikhin-type theorems and Lyapunov methods to give the conditions that make the systems stable. By the aid of Lyapunov-Razumikhin approach, we obtain the p-th moment general decay stability of impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian. In order to establish the criterion on almost surely general decay stability of impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian, the Holder inequality, Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequality and Borel- Cantelli’s lemma are utilized in this paper.</p><p>The paper is organized as follows. Firstly, the problem formulations, definitions of general dacay stability and some lemmas are given in Section 2. In Section 3, the main results on p-th moment and almost sure stability on a general decay of impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian switching are obtained with Lyapunov-Razumikhin methods. An example is presented to illustrate the main results in Section 4. In the last section the conclusions are given.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Preliminaries</title><p>Throughout this paper, let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a complete probability space with some filtration <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfying the usual condition (i.e., the filtration is increasing and right continuous while <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> contain all P-null sets). 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xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-valued random variables <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x20.png" 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xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>-valued random variables; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>means the expectation of a stochastic process; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a discrete index set, where N is a finite positive integer.</p><p>Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a right-continuous Markov chain on the probability space taking values in a finite state space <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with generator <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x31.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> given by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula41"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x35.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the transition rate from i to j if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> while<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>We assume that the Markov chain <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is independent of the Brownian motion<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. It is well known that almost every sample path of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a right-continuous step function with a finite number of simple in any subinterval if<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. In other words, there exist a sequence of stopping times <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> almost surely such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a constant in every interval <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x43.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x47.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, i.e.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula42"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x49.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In this paper, we consider the following impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian switching</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula43"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x50.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where the initial value <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p><img data-original="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x56.png" /><img data-original="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x55.png" /><img data-original="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x54.png" /></p><p>represents the impulsive perturbation of x at time<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The fixed moments of impulse times <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfy <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (as<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>),<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x59.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x61.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>For the existence and uniqueness of the solution we impose a hypothesis:</p><p>Assumption (H): For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfy the local Lipschitz condition and the linear growth condition. That is, there exist a constant <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula44"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x65.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and, moreover, there are a constant <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula45"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x69.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x71.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Definition 1 <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is said to be y-type function, if it satisfies the following conditions:</p><p>(1) It is continuous, monotone increasing and differentiable;</p><p>(2) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;</p><p>(3)<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>(4) for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Definition 2 For<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian switching (1) is said to be p-th moment stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, if there exist positive constants <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and function<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x77.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x78.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x79.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x80.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula46"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x82.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> stable in mean square, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x85.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/10-1720639x83.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x85.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x86.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is p-th moment polynomial stable.</p><p>Definition 3 impulsive stochastic delay differential systems with Markovian switching (1) is said to be almost surely stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, if there exist positive constant <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and function<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x87.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x90.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula47"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x91.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x92.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is almost surely exponential stable, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x92.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x93.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we say that it is almost surely polynomial stable.</p><p>Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> denote the family of all nonnegative functions <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> that are continuously once differentiable in t and twice in x. For each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> define an operator <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x94.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x95.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x96.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x98.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for system (1) by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula48"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x99.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula49"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x100.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Lemma 1 (Burkholder-Davis-Cundy inequality) Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exist positive constants <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x103.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x101.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x103.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x104.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula50"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x105.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula51"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x106.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula52"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x107.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula53"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x108.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Lemma 2 (Borel-Cantelli’s lemma)</p><p>(1) If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x109.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x110.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula54"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x111.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>That is, there exist a set <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and an integer valued random variable <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that for every <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> we have <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> whenever<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x112.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x113.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x114.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x115.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x116.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x117.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>(2) If the sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x118.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is independent and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x118.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x119.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula55"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x120.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>That is, there exists a set <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that for every<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a sub-seq- uence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x124.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x124.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x125.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> belongs to every<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x121.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x122.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x123.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x124.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x125.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x126.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Main Results</title><p>In this section, we shall establish some criteria on the p-th moment exponential stability and almost exponential stability for system (1) by using the Razumikhin technique and Lyapunov functions.</p><p>Theorem 1 For systems (1), let (H) hold, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x127.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a y-type function, Assume that there exist a function<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x127.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x128.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, positive constants <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x127.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x128.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x127.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x128.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><p>(H<sub>1</sub>) For all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x131.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula56"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x132.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>(H<sub>2</sub>) For all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x133.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula57"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x134.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and those <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x135.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x136.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfying</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula58"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x137.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x138.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>(H<sub>3</sub>) For all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x139.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x140.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula59"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x141.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x142.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x142.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x143.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Then, for any initial<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> to system (1). Moreover, the system (1) is p-th moment exponentially stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x145.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x146.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x147.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x148.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Proof. Fix the initial data <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> arbitrarily and write <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> simply. When <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is replaced by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, if we can prove that the system (1) is p-th moment exponentially stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x154.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x154.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x155.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then the desired result is obtained. Choose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x154.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x155.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfying <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x149.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x150.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x151.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x152.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x153.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x154.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x155.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x156.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x157.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, and thus we can have the following fact:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula60"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x158.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then it follows from condition (H<sub>1</sub>) that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula61"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x159.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In the following, we will use the mathematical induction method to show that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula62"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x160.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>In order to do so, we first prove that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula63"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x161.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>This can be verified by a contradiction. Hence, suppose that inequality (9) is not true, than there exist some <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x162.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x163.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Set</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By using the continuity of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x164.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x165.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in</p><p>the interval<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x167.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula64"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x168.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula65"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x169.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Define<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x170.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x171.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula66"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x172.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula67"><label>(13)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x173.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consequently, for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula68"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x175.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>And so</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula69"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x176.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (H<sub>2</sub>) we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula70"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x177.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consequently,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula71"><label>(14)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x178.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Applying the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> formula to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x179.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x180.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> yields</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula72"><label>(15)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x181.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (14), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula73"><label>(16)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x182.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>On the other hand, a direct computation yields</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula74"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x183.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>that is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula75"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x184.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is a contradiction. So inequality (9) holds and (8) is true for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Now we assume that (8) is satisfied for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x186.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, i.e. for every<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x185.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x186.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x187.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula76"><label>(17)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x188.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then, we will prove that (8) holds for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x189.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula77"><label>(18)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x190.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Suppose (18) is not true, i.e. there exist some <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x191.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula78"><label>(19)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x192.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then, it follows from the condition (H<sub>3</sub>) and (17) that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula79"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x193.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which implies that the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x194.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> dose not satisfy the inequality (19). And from this, set</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. By the continuity of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x195.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x196.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in the</p><p>interval<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we know that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x197.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x198.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula80"><label>(20)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x199.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula81"><label>(21)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x200.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Define<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x201.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x202.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula82"><label>(22)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x203.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula83"><label>(23)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x204.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Fix any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, when <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x206.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x205.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x206.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x207.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then (20)-(22) imply that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula84"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x208.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for some<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we assume that, without loss of generality, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for some<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x209.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x210.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x211.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x212.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then from (17) and (20)-(22), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula85"><label>(24)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x213.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Therefore,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula86"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x214.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>by condition (H<sub>2</sub>) we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula87"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x215.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consequently,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula88"><label>(25)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x216.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similar to (15), applying the <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x217.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> formula to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x217.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x218.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> yields</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula89"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x219.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By condition (25), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula90"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x220.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>On the other hand, by (20) and (22), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula91"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x221.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>that is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula92"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x222.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is a contradiction. So inequality (18) holds. Therefore, by mathematical induction, we obtain (8) holds for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Then from condition (H<sub>1</sub>), we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula93"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x224.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which implies</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula94"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x225.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>i.e., system (1) is pth moment exponentially stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x226.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x226.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The proof is complete. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x226.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x227.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x228.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Theorem 2 For system (1), suppose all of the conditions of Theorem 1 are satisfied. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, assume that there exist constants<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x230.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x230.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x231.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x229.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x230.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x231.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x232.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula95"><label>(26)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x233.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then, for any initial <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists a solution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> on <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> to stochastic delay nonlinear system (1). Moreover, the system (1) is almost surely stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x238.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x234.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x235.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x236.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x237.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x238.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x239.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula96"><label>(27)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x240.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. Fix the initial data <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> arbitrarily and write <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x242.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> simply. We claim that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula97"><label>(28)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x243.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula98"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x244.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Choose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> sufficiently small and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x246.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for the fixed<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x246.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x246.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x248.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x245.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x246.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x247.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x248.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x249.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>is the maximum integer not more than x. Then for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exist positive integer i, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, such that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. So, for any<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x251.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x252.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x253.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x254.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula99"><label>(29)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x255.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For each i when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x256.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x257.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula100"><label>(30)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x258.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By Theorem 1, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula101"><label>(31)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x259.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By Holder inequality, condition (26) and Theorem 1, we derives that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula102"><label>(32)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x260.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Similarly, by the Lemma 1 and (32), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula103"><label>(33)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x261.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x262.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a positive constant dependent on p only.</p><p>Substituting (31), (32) and (33) into (30) yields</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula104"><label>(34)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x263.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Thus, it follows from (29) and (34), we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula105"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x264.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Using Chebyshev inequality, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula106"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x265.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x266.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, by Lemma 2, when<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x266.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x267.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x266.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x267.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x268.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we obtain</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula107"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x269.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>That is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula108"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x270.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><fig-group id="fig1"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref></label><caption><title> State of the example.</title></caption><fig id ="fig1_1"><label></label><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x271.png"/></fig></fig-group><fig id="fig2"  position="float"><label><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref></label><caption><title> Markovian switching of the example</title></caption><graphic mimetype="image"   position="float"  xlink:type="simple"  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x272.png"/></fig><p>Thus, the system (1) is almost surely stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x273.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x274.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Examples</title><p>In this section, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the main results established in Section 3 as follows. Consider an impulsive stochastic delay system with Markovian switching as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula109"><label>(35)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x275.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x276.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a right-continuous Markov chain taking values in <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x276.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x277.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with generator</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula110"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x278.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>And independent of the scalar Brownian motion<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x279.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x279.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x280.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x281.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x281.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x282.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x281.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x282.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x283.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x281.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x282.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x283.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x284.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Choosing<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x287.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x287.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x288.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x287.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x288.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x289.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x285.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x286.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x287.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x288.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x289.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x290.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x291.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, then we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula111"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x292.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.70158-formula112"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x293.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By Theorem 1, we know that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, which means that the conditions of Theorem 1 are satisfied. So the impulsive stochastic delay system with Markovian switching is p-th moment stable with decay <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x294.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/10-1720639x295.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of order 2. The simulation result of system (35) is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>, and the Markovian switching of system (35) is described in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Conclusion</title><p>In this paper, p-th moment and almost surely stability on a general decay have been investigated for a class of impulsive stochastic delay systems with Markovian switching. Some sufficient conditions have been derived to check the stability criteria by using the Lyapunov-Razumikhin methods. A numerical example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the main results.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 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>Zhiyu Zhan,Caixia Gao, (2016) Razumikhin-Type Theorems on General Decay Stability of Impulsive Stochastic Functional Differential Systems with Markovian Switching. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,04,1617-1629. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2016.48172</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.70158-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Ji, Y. and Chizeck, H. (1990) Controllability, Stabilizability and Continuous Time Markovian Jump Linear Quadratic Control. 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