Séminaire Michel Davydov: "Proving the Poisson Hypothesis for Replica-Mean-Field Models"
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June 2, 2022
Title : Proving the Poisson Hypothesis for Replica-Mean-Field Models
Abstract :
Modeling particles or agents as nodes of a network interacting over time is a common approach in a variety of fields. Unfortunately, most relevant dynamics involve complex graphs of interactions for which an exact computational treatment is impossible. To circumvent this difficulty, the replica-mean-field approach focuses on randomly interacting replicas of the networks of interest. In the limit of an infinite number of replicas, these networks become analytically tractable under the so-called Poisson Hypothesis, which postulates that replicas become asymptotically independent and arrivals to a given neuron become Poisson distributed. This hypothesis is often conjectured or numerically validated but not proven. We show the validity of the Poisson Hypothesis for large classes of processes that include for example Galves-Löcherbach models from computational neuroscience.
Modeling particles or agents as nodes of a network interacting over time is a common approach in a variety of fields. Unfortunately, most relevant dynamics involve complex graphs of interactions for which an exact computational treatment is impossible. To circumvent this difficulty, the replica-mean-field approach focuses on randomly interacting replicas of the networks of interest. In the limit of an infinite number of replicas, these networks become analytically tractable under the so-called Poisson Hypothesis, which postulates that replicas become asymptotically independent and arrivals to a given neuron become Poisson distributed. This hypothesis is often conjectured or numerically validated but not proven. We show the validity of the Poisson Hypothesis for large classes of processes that include for example Galves-Löcherbach models from computational neuroscience.
