Scaling limit of a generalized contact process

DOI10.1007/S10955-022-03050-XMaRDI QIDQ6399046arXivFDO

Authors Logan Chariker, Anna De Masi, Joel Lebowitz, Errico Presutti

Publication date 12 May 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10955-022-03050-X

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special processes (60Kxx) Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82Cxx)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPmath.PR

Abstract: We derive macroscopic equations for a generalized contact process that is inspired by a neuronal integrate and fire model on the lattice $mathbb{Z}^d$. The states at each lattice site can take values in $0,ldots,k$. These can be interpreted as neuronal membrane potential, with the state $k$ corresponding to a firing threshold. In the terminology of the contact processes, which we shall use in this paper, the state $k$ corresponds to the individual being infectious (all other states are noninfectious). In order to reach the firing threshold, or to become infectious, the site must progress sequentially from $0$ to $k$. The rate at which it climbs is determined by other neurons at state $k$, coupled to it through a Kac-type potential, of range $gamm{a}^{-1}$. The hydrodynamic equations are obtained in the limit $gammaightarrow0$. Extensions of the microscopic model to include excitatory and inhibitory neuron types, as well as other biophysical mechanisms, are also considered.

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