Dynamical effects of electromagnetic flux on Chialvo neuron map: nodal and network behaviors

Abstract: We consider the dynamical effects of electromagnetic flux on the discrete Chialvo neuron. It is shown that the model can exhibit rich dynamical behaviors such as multistability, firing patterns, antimonotonicity, closed invariant curves, various routes to chaos, fingered chaotic attractors. The system enters chaos via period-doubling cascades, reverse period-doubling route, antimonotonicity, via closed invariant curve to chaos. The results were confirmed using the techniques of bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponent diagram, phase portraits, basins of attraction and numerical continuation of bifurcations. Different global bifurcations are also shown to exist via numerical continuation. After understanding a single neuron model, a network of Chialvo neuron is explored. A ring-star network of Chialvo neuron is considered and different dynamical regimes such as synchronous, asynchronous, chimera states are revealed. Different continuous and piecewise continuous wavy patterns were also found during the simulations for negative coupling strengths.