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We consider two dynamical variants of Dvoretzky's classical problem of random interval coverings of the unit circle, the latter having been completely solved by L. Shepp. In the first model, the centers of the intervals perform independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-22 Johan Jonasson , Jeffrey E. Steif

We present a mathematical analysis of a networks with Integrate-and-Fire neurons and adaptive conductances. Taking into account the realistic fact that the spike time is only known within some \textit{finite} precision, we propose a model…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 B. Cessac , T. Vieville

We derive the mean-field equations arising as the limit of a network of interacting spiking neurons, as the number of neurons goes to infinity. The neurons belong to a fixed number of populations and are represented either by the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-25 Javier Baladron , Diego Fasoli , Olivier Faugeras , Jonathan Touboul

Avalanches in mean-field models can be mapped to memoryless branching processes defining a universality class. We present a reduced expression mapping a broad family of critical and subcriticial avalanches in mean-field models at the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-27 Jordi Baró , Álvaro Corral

We study the long time behavior of the solution to some McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by a Poisson process. In neuroscience, this SDE models the asymptotic dynamic of the membrane potential of a spiking neuron…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Quentin Cormier , Etienne Tanré , Romain Veltz

A key problem in computational neuroscience is to find simple, tractable models that are nevertheless flexible enough to capture the response properties of real neurons. Here we examine the capabilities of recurrent point process models…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-11 Alison I. Weber , Jonathan W. Pillow

There is a wide range of mathematical models that describe populations of large numbers of neurons. In this article, we focus on nonlinear noisy leaky integrate-and-fire (NNLIF) models that describe neuronal activity at the level of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 María J. Cáceres , José A. Cañizo , Alejandro Ramos-Lora

The main objective of this manuscript is to investigate the global behavior of the solutions to the viscoelastic wave equation with a linear memory term of Boltzmann type, and a nonlinear damping modeling friction, as well as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Haiyang Lin , Jinqi Yan , Bo You , Marcelo M. Cavalcanti

Recent advances in experimental techniques enable the simultaneous recording of activity from thousands of neurons in the brain, presenting both an opportunity and a challenge: to build meaningful, scalable models of large neural…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Luca Di Carlo , Francesca Mignacco , Christopher W. Lynn , William Bialek

Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have been achieving ever newer feats of solving complicated PDEs numerically while offering an attractive trade-off between accuracy and speed of inference. A particularly challenging aspect of PDEs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Dibyakanti Kumar , Anirbit Mukherjee

Non-Poissonian bursty processes are ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena, yet little is known about their effects on the large-scale spreading dynamics. In order to characterize these effects we devise an analytically solvable model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-19 Hang-Hyun Jo , Juan I. Perotti , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész

Mesoscopic models of finite-size neuronal populations are crucial to understand the dynamics of neural networks in the brain, especially their fluctuations and response to stimuli. However, current theories to derive such models are based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-26 Nils E. Greven , Jonas Ranft , Tilo Schwalger

We study networks of theta neurons arranged on a ring with delayed interactions. In the continuum limit the systems are described by next generation neural field models with delays. We consider distributed delays with both finite and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-27 Oleh E. Omel'chenko , Carlo R. Laing

We investigate finite-time blow-up for nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem associated with semilinear parabolic equations driven by a mixed local--nonlocal operator. The reaction term is assumed to satisfy suitable structural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Stefano Biagi , Fabio Punzo , Eugenio Vecchi

In this paper we prove the Poisson Hypothesis for the limiting behavior of the large queueing systems in some simple ("mean-field") cases. We show in particular that the corresponding dynamical systems, defined by the non-linear Markov…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Rybko , Senya Shlosman

The time elapsed model describes the firing activity of an homogeneous assembly of neurons thanks to the distribution of times elapsed since the last discharge. It gives a mathematical description of the probability density of neurons…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Khashayar Pakdaman , Benoît Perthame , Delphine Salort

We study a family of mean field games with a state variable evolving as a multivariate jump diffusion process. The jump component is driven by a Poisson process with a time-dependent intensity function. All coefficients, i.e. drift,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Chiara Benazzoli , Luciano Campi , Luca Di Persio

We study existence of global solutions and finite time blow-up of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with a variable density $\rho(x)$ and a power-like reaction term $\rho(x) u^p$ with $p>1$; this is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Giulia Meglioli , Fabio Punzo

Network dynamics with point-process-based interactions are of paramount modeling interest. Unfortunately, most relevant dynamics involve complex graphs of interactions for which an exact computational treatment is impossible. To circumvent…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-22 François Baccelli , Michel Davydov , Thibaud Taillefumier

The final goal of this paper is to prove existence of local (strong) solutions to a (fully nonlinear) porous medium equation with blow-up term and nondecreasing constraint. To this end, the equation, arising in the context of Damage…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Goro Akagi , Stefano Melchionna