Interpreting a period-adding bifurcation scenario in neural bursting patterns using border-collision bifurcation in a discontinuous map of a slow control variable

To further identify the dynamics of the period-adding bifurcation scenarios observed in both biological experiment and simulations with the differential Chay model, this paper fits a discontinuous map of a slow control variable of the Chay model based on simulation results. The procedure of period adding bifurcation scenario from period k to period k+1 bursting (k=1, 2, 3, 4) involved in the period-adding cascades and the stochastic effect of noise near each bifurcation point is also reproduced in the discontinuous map. Moreover, dynamics of the border-collision bifurcation are identified in the discontinuous map, which is employed to understand the experimentally observed period increment sequence. The simple discontinuous map is of practical importance in the modeling of collective behaviours of neural populations like synchronization in large neural circuits.