Spatially extended networks with singular multi-scale connectivity patterns

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-1015-XMaRDI QIDQ741348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Kharzeev

Publication date 11 September 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4655

zbMATH Keywords

mean-field equationsmean-field limitsneural fieldsspatially-extended networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vlasov equations (35Q83) Brownian motion (60J65) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32) Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20)

Abstract: The cortex is a very large network characterized by a complex connectivity including at least two scales: a microscopic scale at which the interconnections are non-specific and very dense, while macroscopic connectivity patterns connecting different regions of the brain at larger scale are extremely sparse. This motivates to analyze the behavior of networks with multiscale coupling, in which a neuron is connected to its $v(N)$ nearest-neighbors where $v(N)=o(N)$, and in which the probability of macroscopic connection between two neurons vanishes. These are called singular multi-scale connectivity patterns. We introduce a class of such networks and derive their continuum limit. We show convergence in law and propagation of chaos in the thermodynamic limit. The limit equation obtained is an intricate non-local McKean-Vlasov equation with delays which is universal with respect to the type of micro-circuits and macro-circuits involved.

Review text

This is a study on convergence and propagation of chaos for spatially extended networks with multi-scale disordered connectivity. The model and network equations are introduced in the first section. Some results regarding the topology of the network and the well-posedness of the network system are shown. The mean-field equation is introduced next. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for the mean-field equation are studied in the second section. This equation contains a stochastic integral involving chaotic Brownian motions and an integrated McKean-Vlasov mean-field term with delays. One introduces suitable functional spaces, defines the strong solution to the mean-field equation and proves the existence of a unique strong solution. The third section is devoted to the main result of the article. One proves the convergence in law of the solutions of the networks equations towards the mean-field equations and the fact that the propagation of chaos property occurs. The convergence is proved by means of a coupling method. The fourth section as well as the introduction contain valuable comments, analysis, surveys of results on the subject and indicate connections to some other domains. A very interesting article.

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