Dmitry Shchapin

Transient sequences in a hypernetwork generated by an adaptive network of spiking neurons

We propose a model of an adaptive network of spiking neurons that gives rise to a hypernetwork of its dynamic states at the upper level of description. Left to itself, the network exhibits a sequence of transient clustering which relates to a traffic in the hypernetwork in the form of a random walk. Receiving inputs the system is able to generate reproducible sequences corresponding to stimulus-specific paths in the hypernetwork. We illustrate these basic notions by a simple network of discrete-time spiking neurons together with its FPGA realization and analyse their properties. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Mathematical methods in medicine: neuroscience, cardiology and pathology’.

Jittering waves in rings of pulse oscillators.

Rings of oscillators with delayed pulse coupling are studied analytically, numerically, and experimentally. The basic regimes observed in such rings are rotating waves with constant interspike intervals and phase lags between the neighbors. We show that these rotating waves may destabilize leading to the so-called jittering waves. For these regimes, the interspike intervals are no more equal but form a periodic sequence in time. Analytic criterion for the emergence of jittering waves is derived and confirmed by the numerical and experimental data. The obtained results contribute to the hypothesis that the multijitter instability is universal in systems with pulse coupling.

Dynamics of Oscillatory Networks with Pulse Delayed Coupling

The chapter is devoted to the dynamics of networks of oscillators with pulse time-delayed coupling. We develop a mathematical technique that allows to reduce the dynamics of such networks to multi-dimensional maps. With the help of these maps we consider networks of various configurations: a single oscillator with feedback, a feed-forward ring, a pair of oscillators with mutual coupling, a small network with heterogeneous delays, and a large network with all-to-all coupling. In all these examples we show that the role of the delay is significant and leads to the modification of the existing dynamical regimes and the emergence of new ones.

Embedding the dynamics of a single delay system into a feed-forward ring

We investigate the relation between the dynamics of a single oscillator with delayed self-feedback and a feed-forward ring of such oscillators, where each unit is coupled to its next neighbor in the same way as in the self-feedback case. We show that periodic solutions of the delayed oscillator give rise to families of rotating waves with different wave numbers in the corresponding ring. In particular, if for the single oscillator the periodic solution is resonant to the delay, it can be embedded into a ring with instantaneous couplings. We discover several cases where the stability of a periodic solution for the single unit can be related to the stability of the corresponding rotating wave in the ring. As a specific example, we demonstrate how the complex bifurcation scenario of simultaneously emerging multijittering solutions can be transferred from a single oscillator with delayed pulse feedback to multijittering rotating waves in a sufficiently large ring of oscillators with instantaneous pulse coupling. Finally, we present an experimental realization of this dynamical phenomenon in a system of coupled electronic circuits of FitzHugh-Nagumo type.

Chimera states in an ensemble of linearly locally coupled bistable oscillators

Chimera states in a system with linear local connections have been studied. The system is a ring ensemble of analog bistable self-excited oscillators with a resistive coupling. It has been shown that the existence of chimera states is not due to the nonidentity of oscillators and noise, which is always present in real experiments, but is due to the nonlinear dynamics of the system on invariant tori with various dimensions.

Experimental study of jittering chimeras in a ring of excitable units

A new type of chimera-like regime is reported that we call “jittering chimera”. The regime is observed in a ring of excitable units in which the excitation is invoked by an oscillator included into the ring. The jittering chimera is characterized by the presence of two domains, one with regular spiking and the other with irregular. A method to set and control desired chimera states in a physically implemented electronic circuit is developed.