Splay states in finite pulse-coupled networks of excitable neurons

Details Splay states in finite pulse-coupled networks of excitable neurons Splay states in finite pulse-coupled networks of excitable neurons

2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3561v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

27 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS)

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The emergence and stability of splay states is studied in fully coupled finite networks of N excitable quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, connected via synapses modeled as pulses of finite amplitude and duration. For such synapses, by introducing two distinct types of synaptic events (pulse emission and termination), we were able to write down an exact event-driven map for the system and to evaluate the splay state solutions. For M overlapping post synaptic potentials the linear stability analysis of the splay state should take in account, besides the actual values of the membrane potentials, also the firing times associated to the M previous pulse emissions. As a matter of fact, it was possible, by introducing M complementary variables, to rephrase the evolution of the network as an event-driven map and to derive an analytic expression for the Floquet spectrum. We find that, independently of M, the splay state is marginally stable with N-2 neutral directions. Furthermore, we have identified a family of periodic solutions surrounding the splay state and sharing the same neutral stability directions. In the limit of $\delta$-pulses, it is still possible to derive an event-driven formulation for the dynamics, however the number of neutrally stable directions, associated to the splay state, becomes N. Finally, we prove a link between the results for our system and a previous theory [Watanabe and Strogatz, Physica D, 74 (1994), pp. 197- 253] developed for networks of phase oscillators with sinusoidal coupling.

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