Noise-induced canard and mixed-mode oscillations in large stochastic networks with multiple timescales

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Mathieu Desroches, Jonathan D. Touboul, M. Krupa

Publication date: 28 February 2013

Abstract: We investigate the dynamics of large stochastic networks with different timescales and nonlinear mean-field interactions. After deriving the limit equations for a general class of network models, we apply our results to the celebrated Wilson-Cowan system with two populations with or without slow adaptation, paradigmatic example of nonlinear mean-field network. This system has the property that the dynamics of the mean of the solution exactly satisfies an ODE. This reduction allows to show that in the mean-field limit and in multiple populations with multiple timescales, noise induces canard explosions and Mixed-Mode Oscillations on the mean of the solution. This sheds new light on the qualitative effects of noise and sensitivity to precise noise values in large stochastic networks. We further investigate finite-sized networks and show that systematic differences with the mean-field limits arise in bistable regimes (where random switches between different attractors occur) or in mixed-mode oscillations, were the finite-size effects induce early jumps due to the sensitivity of the attractor.

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