Steady state of an inhibitory neural network.

We investigate the dynamics of a neural network where each neuron evolves according to the combined effects of deterministic integrate-and-fire dynamics and purely inhibitory coupling with K randomly chosen "neighbors." The inhibition reduces the voltage of a given neuron by an amount Delta when one of its neighbors fires. The interplay between the integration and inhibition leads to a steady state that is determined by solving the rate equations for the neuronal voltage distribution. We also study the evolution of a single neuron and find that the mean lifetime between firing events equals 1+K delta and that the probability that a neuron has not yet fired decays exponentially with time.

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