A Result of Metastability for an Infinite System of Spiking Neurons

Morgan André

In 2018, Ferrari et al. wrote a paper called "Phase Transition for Infinite Systems of Spiking Neurons" in which they introduced a continuous time stochastic model of interacting neurons. This model has a parameter γ, corresponding to the rate of the leaking times of the neurons and, as the title says, it was proven there to present a phase transition phenomenon with respect to this γ. Here we prove that this model also exhibit a metastable behavior. By this we mean that if γ is small enough, then the re-normalized time of extinction converges toward an exponential random variable of mean 1 as the number of neurons goes to infinity.

The whole paper is available here.

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