Symmetries constrain dynamics in a family of balanced neural networks

Abstract

We examine a family of random firing-rate neural networks in which we enforce the neurobiological constraint of Dale's Law --- each neuron makes either excitatory or inhibitory connections onto its post-synaptic targets. We find that this constrained system may be described as a perturbation from a system with non-trivial symmetries. We analyze the symmetric system using the tools of equivariant bifurcation theory, and demonstrate that the symmetry-implied structures remain evident in the perturbed system. In comparison, spectral characteristics of the network coupling matrix are relatively uninformative about the behavior of the constrained system.

arXiv commentIn review; submitted 1/21/2016 Revision submitted 9/24/16

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