6-Periodic travelling waves in an artificial neural network with bang-bang control

摘要

Doubly periodic travelling waves can be used to describe dynamic patterns of signals that govern movements of animals. In this paper, we study the existence of such waves in cellular networks involving the discontinuous Heaviside step function. This is done by finding ω-periodic solutions of an accompanying recurrence relation with a priori unknown parameters and the Heaviside function. Since analytic tools cannot be used to handle discontinuous models such as ours, existence of periodic solutions is investigated by means of symmetry, combinatorial techniques and accompanying linear systems. By such means, we are able to obtain all periodic solutions with least periods 1 through 6. Our techniques are new and good for other periodic solutions with relatively small periods.