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A reduction methodology for fluctuation driven population dynamics

Statistical Mechanics 2021-07-21 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Neurons and Cognition

Abstract

Lorentzian distributions have been largely employed in statistical mechanics to obtain exact results for heterogeneous systems. Analytic continuation of these results is impossible even for slightly deformed Lorentzian distributions, due to the divergence of all the moments (cumulants). We have solved this problem by introducing a `pseudo-cumulants' expansion. This allows us to develop a reduction methodology for heterogeneous spiking neural networks subject to extrinsinc and endogenous noise sources, thus generalizing the mean-field formulation introduced in [E. Montbri\'o et al., Phys. Rev. X 5, 021028 (2015)].

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2101.11679,
  title  = {A reduction methodology for fluctuation driven population dynamics},
  author = {Denis S. Goldobin and Matteo di Volo and Alessandro Torcini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11679},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages (with supplementary materials), 3 figures

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