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Published on: August 14, 2015
Dynamics of a population of oscillatory and excitable elements
Kevin P O'Keeffe1, Steven H Strogatz1
1Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Abstract:
We analyze a variant of a model proposed by Kuramoto, Shinomoto, and Sakaguchi for a large population of coupled oscillatory and excitable elements. Using the Ott-Antonsen ansatz, we reduce the behavior of the population to a two-dimensional dynamical system with three parameters. We present the stability diagram and calculate several of its bifurcation curves analytically, for both excitatory and inhibitory coupling. Our main result is that when the coupling function is broad, the system can display bistability between steady states of constant high and low activity, whereas when the coupling function is narrow and inhibitory, one of the states in the bistable regime can show persistent pulsations in activity.
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