Pattern selection in a lattice of pulse-coupled oscillators

We study spatio-temporal pattern formation in a ring of N oscillators with inhibitory unidirectional pulselike interactions. The attractors of the dynamics are limit cycles where each oscillator fires once and only once. Since some of these limit cycles lead to the same pattern, we introduce the con...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Guardiola Martínez, Xavier, Díaz Guilera, Albert
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/18802
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/18802
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Física estadística
Termodinàmica
Sistemes dinàmics diferenciables
Biofísica
Física mèdica
Statistical physics
Thermodynamics
Differentiable dynamical systems
Biophysics
Medical physics
Descrição
Resumo:We study spatio-temporal pattern formation in a ring of N oscillators with inhibitory unidirectional pulselike interactions. The attractors of the dynamics are limit cycles where each oscillator fires once and only once. Since some of these limit cycles lead to the same pattern, we introduce the concept of pattern degeneracy to take it into account. Moreover, we give a qualitative estimation of the volume of the basin of attraction of each pattern by means of some probabilistic arguments and pattern degeneracy, and show how they are modified as we change the value of the coupling strength. In the limit of small coupling, our estimative formula gives a pefect agreement with numerical simulations.