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IOP Publishing, Nonlinearity, 9(28), p. 3365-3388, 2015

DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/28/9/3365

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Qualitative properties of solutions for the noisy integrate and fire model in computational neuroscience

Journal article published in 2015 by José Antonio Carrillo ORCID, Benoit Perthame, Delphine Salort, Didier Smets
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Abstract

The Noisy Integrate-and-Fire equation is a standard non-linear Fokker-Planck Equation used to describe the activity of a homogeneous neural network characterized by its connectivity b (each neuron connected to all others through synaptic weights); b > 0 describes excitatory networks and b < 0 inhibitory networks. In the excitatory case, it was proved that, once the proportion of neurons that are close to their action potential V F is too high, solutions cannot exist for all times. In this paper, we show a priori uniform bounds in time on the firing rate to discard the scenario of blow-up, and, for small connectivity, we prove qualitative properties on the long time behavior of solutions. The methods are based on the one hand on relative entropy and Poincaré inequalities leading to L 2 estimates and on the other hand, on the notion of 'universal super-solution' and parabolic regularizing effects to obtain L ∞ bounds.