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EXISTENCE AND NONEXISTENCE OF TRAVELING PULSES IN A LATERAL INHIBITION NEURAL NETWORK
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EXISTENCE AND NONEXISTENCE OF TRAVELING PULSES IN A LATERAL INHIBITION NEURAL NETWORK

Yixin Guo and Aijun Zhang
Discrete and continuous dynamical systems. Series B, v 21(6), pp 1729-1755
01 Aug 2016
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https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2016020View
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Mathematics Mathematics, Applied Physical Sciences Science & Technology
We study the spatial propagating dynamics in a neural network of excitatory and inhibitory populations. Our study demonstrates the existence and nonexistence of traveling pulse solutions with a nonsaturating piecewise linear gain function. We prove that traveling pulse solutions do not exist for such neural field models with even (symmetric) couplings. The neural field models only support traveling pulse solutions with asymmetric couplings. We also show that such neural field models with asymmetric couplings will lead to a system of delay differential equations. We further compute traveling 1 bump solutions using the system of delay differential equations. Finally, we develop Evans functions to assess the stability of traveling 1 bump solutions.

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