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Luonan Chen

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arXiv2006

Transient Resetting: A Novel Mechanism for Synchrony and Its Biological Examples

The study of synchronization in biological systems is essential for the understanding of the rhythmic phenomena of living organisms at both molecular and cellular levels. In this paper, by using simple dynamical systems theory, we present a novel mechanism, named transient resetting, for the synchronization of uncoupled biological oscillators with stimuli. This mechanism not only can unify and extend many existing results on (deterministic and stochastic) stimulus-induced synchrony, but also may actually play an important role in biological rhythms. We argue that transient resetting is a possible mechanism for the synchronization in many biological organisms, which might also be further used in medical therapy of rhythmic disorders. Examples on the synchronization of neural and circadian oscillators are presented to verify our hypothesis.

q-bio.MN↗

arXiv2006

Synchronization of Coupled Nonidentical Genetic Oscillators

The study on the collective dynamics of synchronization among genetic oscillators is essential for the understanding of the rhythmic phenomena of living organisms at both molecular and cellular levels. Genetic oscillators are biochemical networks, which can generally be modelled as nonlinear dynamic systems. We show in this paper that many genetic oscillators can be transformed into Lur'e form by exploiting the special structure of biological systems. By using control theory approach, we provide a theoretical method for analyzing the synchronization of coupled nonidentical genetic oscillators. Sufficient conditions for the synchronization as well as the estimation of the bound of the synchronization error are also obtained. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our theoretical results, a population of genetic oscillators based on the Goodwin model are adopted as numerical examples.

nlin.CD↗

arXiv1997

Chaotic Simulated Annealing by A Neural Network Model with Transient Chaos

We propose a neural network model with transient chaos, or a transiently chaotic neural network (TCNN) as an approximation method for combinatorial optimization problem, by introducing transiently chaotic dynamics into neural networks. Unlike conventional neural networks only with point attractors, the proposed neural network has richer and more flexible dynamics, so that it can be expected to have higher ability of searching for globally optimal or near-optimal solutions. A significant property of this model is that the chaotic neurodynamics is temporarily generated for searching and self-organizing, and eventually vanishes with autonomous decreasing of a bifurcation parameter corresponding to the "temperature" in usual annealing process. Therefore, the neural network gradually approaches, through the transient chaos, to dynamical structure similar to such conventional models as the Hopfield neural network which converges to a stable equilibrium point. Since the optimization process of the transiently chaotic neural network is similar to simulated annealing, not in a stochastic way but in a deterministically chaotic way, the new method is regarded as chaotic simulated annealing (CSA). Fundamental characteristics of the transiently chaotic neurodynamics are numerically investigated with examples of a single neuron model and the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Moreover, a maintenance scheduling problem for generators in a practical power system is also analysed to verify practical efficiency of this new method.

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arXiv1997

Chaos and Asymptotical Stability in Discrete-time Neural Networks

This paper aims to theoretically prove by applying Marotto's Theorem that both transiently chaotic neural networks (TCNN) and discrete-time recurrent neural networks (DRNN) have chaotic structure. A significant property of TCNN and DRNN is that they have only one fixed point, when absolute values of the self-feedback connection weights in TCNN and the difference time in DRNN are sufficiently large. We show that this unique fixed point can actually evolve into a snap-back repeller which generates chaotic structure, if several conditions are satisfied. On the other hand, by using the Lyapunov functions, we also derive sufficient conditions on asymptotical stability for symmetrical versions of both TCNN and DRNN, under which TCNN and DRNN asymptotically converge to a fixed point. Furthermore, generic bifurcations are also considered in this paper. Since both of TCNN and DRNN are not special but simple and general, the obtained theoretical results hold for a wide class of discrete-time neural networks. To demonstrate the theoretical results of this paper better, several numerical simulations are provided as illustrating examples.

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