Synchronization of stochastic mean field networks of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons with noisy channels (Q1741555)

The dynamics of a neuron's voltage is the result of the passage of ions through its membrane. In this paper, the authors assume that every neuron follows a stochastic version of the Hodgkin-Huxley model [\textit{A. Hodgkin} and \textit{A. Huxley}, ``A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve'', J. Physiol. 117, No. 4, 500--544 (1952)], moreover, that pairs of neurons interact through both electrical and chemical synapses, the global connectivity being of mean field type. The authors are interested in the collective behavior of a fully connected network of finitely many neurons, when their number and when time go to infinity. In case when the leak conductance is strictly positive, it is shown that if the initial voltages are uniformly bounded and the electrical interaction between neurons is strong enough, then, uniformly in the number of neurons, the whole system synchronizes exponentially fast as time goes to infinity. If the random initial condition is exchangeable, then it is proved that on every bounded time interval the propagation of chaos property for this system holds . The nonlinear McKean-Vlasov equation is discussed, describing an infinite network of such neurons concentrates, as time goes to infinity, around the dynamics of a single Hodgkin-Huxley neuron with chemical neurotransmitter channels.