Abstract
For a class of circuit models for neurons, it has been shown that the transmembrane electrical potentials in spike bursts have an inverse correlation with the intra-cellular energy conversion: the fewer spikes per burst the more energetic each spike is. Here we demonstrate that as the per-spike energy goes down to zero, a universal constant to the bifurcation of spike-bursts emerges in a similar way as Feigenbaum's constant does to the period-doubling bifurcation to chaos generation, and the new universal constant is the first natural number 1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2940-2957 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Differential Equations |
Volume | 250 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 15 2011 |
Keywords
- Circuit models of neurons
- Feigenbaum constant
- Isospiking bifurcation
- Period-doubling bifurcation
- Poincaré return maps
- Renormalization universality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analysis
- Applied Mathematics