Breakdown of order preservation in symmetric oscillator networks with pulse-coupling

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Contributors

  • Hinrich Kielblock - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Author)
  • Christoph Kirst - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Bernstein Center Computational Neuroscience Berlin (Author)
  • Marc Timme - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (Author)

Abstract

Symmetric networks of coupled dynamical units exhibit invariant subspaces with two or more units synchronized. In time-continuously coupled systems, these invariant sets constitute barriers for the dynamics. For networks of units with local dynamics defined on the real line, this implies that the units' ordering is preserved and that their winding number is identical. Here, we show that in permutation-symmetric networks with pulse-coupling, the order is often no longer preserved. We analytically study a class of pulse-coupled oscillators (characterizing for instance the dynamics of spiking neural networks) and derive quantitative conditions for the breakdown of order preservation. We find that in general pulse-coupling yields additional dimensions to the state space such that units may change their order by avoiding the invariant sets. We identify a system of two symmetrically pulse-coupled identical oscillators where, contrary to intuition, the oscillators' average frequencies and thus their winding numbers are different.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number025113
JournalChaos
Volume21
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2011
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5956-3137/work/142242498