Symmetry and phase-locking in a ring of pulse-coupled oscillators with distributed delays
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Author(s)
Bressloff, PC
Coombes, S
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Phase-locking in a ring of pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire oscillators with distributed delays is analysed using group theory. The period of oscillation of a solution and those related by symmetry is determined self-consistently. Numerical continuation of maximally symmetric solutions in characteristic system length and timescales yields bifurcation diagrams with spontaneous symmetry breaking. The stability of phase-locked solutions is determined via a linearisation of the oscillator firing map. In the weak-coupling regime, averaging leads to an effective phase-coupled model with distributed phase-shifts and the analysis of the system is considerably simplified. In particular, the collective period of a solution is now slaved to the relative phases. For odd numbered rings, spontaneous symmetry breaking can lead to a change of stability of a travelling wave state via a simple Hopf bifurcation. The resulting non-phase-locked solutions are constructed via numerical continuation at these bifurcation points. The corresponding behaviour in the integrate-and-fire system is explored with simulations showing bifurcations to quasiperiodic firing patterns.
Date Issued
1999-02-01
Date Acceptance
1998-09-16
Citation
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1999, 126 (1-2), pp.99-122
ISSN
0167-2789
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
99
End Page
122
Journal / Book Title
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Volume
126
Issue
1-2
Copyright Statement
Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2789(98)00264-4
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
1999-07-06