The emergence of the deterministic Hodgkin-Huxley equations as a limit from the underlying stochastic ion-channel mechanism

DOI10.1214/07-AAP494zbMath1157.60066arXivmath/0609068MaRDI QIDQ939070

Tim D. Austin

Publication date: 20 August 2008

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609068

zbMATH Keywords

emergence; action potential; Hodgkin-Huxley equations; nonlinear parabolic PDE; convergence of Markov processes; stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K55: Nonlinear parabolic equations

92C20: Neural biology

60H30: Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.)

60H25: Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)

60H15: Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)

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