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Carl van Vreeswijk1, Farzad Farkhooi2
1Centre de Neurophysique Physiologie et Pathologie, Paris Descartes University and CNRS UMR 8002 INCC, 75006 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We develop a method to investigate the effect of noise timescales on the first-passage time of nonlinear oscillators. Using Fredholm theory, we derive an exact integral equation for the mean event rate of a leaky integrate-and-fire oscillator that receives constant input and temporally correlated noise. Furthermore, we show that Fredholm theory provides a unified framework to determine the system scaling behavior for small and large noise timescales. In this framework, the leading-order and higher-order asymptotic corrections for slow and fast noise are naturally emerging. We show the scaling behavior in the both limits is not reciprocal. We discuss further how this approach can be extended to study the first-passage time in a general class of nonlinear oscillators driven by colored noise at arbitrary timescales.
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