2011/12/16 by José A. Carrillo, José Antonio Carrillo, Carrillo, José Antonio +4
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Diffusion and Search Dynamics #FOS: Mathematics #math.AP #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1112.3794
arxiv created 2011/12/16 · openalex publication_date 2011/12/16 · arxiv updated 2011/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study a Fokker-Planck equation modelling the firing rates of two interacting populations of neurons. This model arises in computational neuroscience when considering, for example, bistable visual perception problems and is based on a stochastic Wilson-Cowan system of differential equations. In a previous work, the slow-fast behavior of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation has been highlighted. Our aim is to demonstrate that the complexity of the model can be drastically reduced using this slow-fast structure. In fact, we can derive a one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation that describes the evolution of the solution along the so-called slow manifold. This permits to have a direct efficient determination of the equilibrium state and its effective potential, and thus to investigate its dependencies with respect to various parameters of the model. It also allows to obtain information about the time escaping behavior. The results obtained for the reduced 1D equation are validated with those of the original 2D equation both for equilibrium and transient behavior.