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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 950251, 34 pages doi:10.1155/2009/950251 Research Article Equivariant Hopf Bifurcation in a Ring of Identical Cells with Delay Dejun Fan and Junjie Wei Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai, Shandong 264209, China Correspondence should be addressed to Junjie Wei, weijj@ Received 21 January 2009; Revised 27 March 2009; Accepted 24 May 2009 Recommended by Ji Huan He A kind of delay neural network with n elements is considered. By analyzing the distribution of the eigenvalues, a bifurcation set is given in an appropriate parameter space. Then by using the theory of equivariant Hopf bifurcations of ordinary differential equations due to Golubitsky et al. 1988 and delay differential equations due to Wu 1998, and combining the normal form theory of functional differential equations due to Faria and Magalhaes 1995, the equivariant Hopf bifurcation is completely analyzed. Copyright q 2009 D. Fan and J. Wei. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction The works of Golubitsky et al. 1, Chapter XVIII have shown that rings of identical cells can lead to many interesting patterns of oscillation, which are predictable based on the theory of equivariant bifurcations. In a series of papers, Wu et al. 2–4 have extended the theory of equivariant Hopf bifurcation to delay differential equations. Recently, there has been interest in applying these results to neural networks, primarily to models related to the Hopfield- Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time delays 5–9. In a series of papers 10–23, the authors studied the