FIGURE 11.
Stability analysis for unidirectional N-ring pulse coupled oscillators. The analysis depends on k because the sum of tsi[n] for i=1 to N equals kPe at steady state, where Pe represents the common entrained period of the N neurons. If the firing time of neuron 1 is perturbed slightly from steady state, the effects of this perturbation will propagate all the way around the ring in k periods.