Relaxation in time elapsed neuron network models in the weak connectivity regime
The dynamics of the fully connected neuron network is given by the following nonlinear time elapsed evolution equation: \[\partial_tf=-\partial_xf-a(x,\epsilon m(t))f,\quad f(t,0)=p(t),\quad f(0,x)=f_o(x), \] where $f(x,t)$ denotes the density number of neurons which at time $t\geq 0$ are in the state $x\geq 0$. Here $a(x,\epsilon\mu)\geq 0$ represents the firing rate of a neuron in state $x$ for a network activity $\mu\geq 0$ and a network connectivity parameter $\epsilon\geq 0$. The function $m(t)=\int_0^\infty p(t-y)b(dy) $ describes the global neuronal activity at time $t$ resulting from earlier discharges. One defines also the delay distribution $b$ as a probability measure taking into account the persistence of the electric activity to the discharges in the network. Under some special assumptions on the firing rate $a(.,.)$, the delay distribution $b$ and initial data, the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions is assured and one proves a long-time asymptotic result on the solutions. Two separate cases are considered: the case without delay for $b=\delta_o$, $m(t)=p(t)$ and the case with delay when $b$ is a smooth function. However, the strategy of proof is the same.
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