Self-organized criticality in a network of interacting neurons

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/04/P04030zbMATH Open1456.82802arXiv1209.3829OpenAlexW3099055630WikidataQ105609295 ScholiaQ105609295MaRDI QIDQ3301592FDOQ3301592

Authors: Jack D. Cowan, Jeremy Neuman, Bert Kiewiet, Wim van Drongelen 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper contains an analysis of a simple neural network that exhibits self-organized criticality. Such criticality follows from the combination of a simple neural network with an excitatory feedback loop that generates bistability, in combination with an anti-Hebbian synapse in its input pathway. Using the methods of statistical field theory, we show how one can formulate the stochastic dynamics of such a network as the action of a path integral, which we then investigate using renormalization group methods. The results indicate that the network exhibits hysteresis in switching back and forward between its two stable states, each of which loses its stability at a saddle-node bifurcation. The renormalization group analysis shows that the fluctuations in the neighborhood of such bifurcations have the signature of directed percolation. Thus the network states undergo the neural analog of a phase transition in the universality class of directed percolation. The network replicates precisely the behavior of the original sand-pile model of Bak, Tang & Wiesenfeld.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3829

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28) Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32)

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