Stability and boundedness criteria for certain second-order nonlinear neutral stochastic functional differential equations

This paper presents stochastic stability and stochastic boundedness to certain second-order nonlinear neutral stochastic differential equations. The second-order differential equation is weakened to a neutral stochastic system of first-order equations and used together with a second-order quadratic function to obtain perfect Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional. This functional is adapted and applied to obtain criteria on the nonlinear functions to ensure novel results on stochastic stability and stochastic asymptotic stability of the zero solution. Furthermore, when the forcing term is nonzero, fresh results on stochastic boundedness and uniform stochastic boundedness of solutions are obtained. The results of this paper are original, new, essentially improving, complementing, and simplifying several related ones in the literature. Two special cases of the theoretical results are supplied to demonstrate the applicability of the hypothetical results.