Theoretical study of the emergence of periodic solutions for the inhibitory NNLIF neuron model with synaptic delay
De Kota Ikeda
In neural networks, fast global oscillations was observed in [1] and are named gamma oscillation. Among other models aimed at understanding the self-sustained oscillations, the NNLIF model with synaptic delay and weakly firing inhibitory neurons was developed two decades ago [2]. Periodic solutions have been numerically observed in this model, but despite intensive study of this model in several researches, there was up-to-date no analytical result on this topic. In this talk, we propose to approximate formally these solutions by a Gaussian wave whose periodic movement is described by an associate difference-differential equation. We prove the existence of a periodic solution for the position in time of the centre of the Gaussian wave and we give a rigorous asymptotic result on these solutions when the connectivity parameter $b$ goes to $−∞$. Finally we provide heuristic and numerical evidence of the validity of our approximation.