On a Population of Labile Synthesized Relaxation Oscillators

A labile synthesized relaxation oscillator (SRO), exhibiting rhythmic activity when excited by an appropriate stimulus, is proposed. Such an oscillator can be used to represent a stimulus-dependent (or labile) biological rhythm. A population of coupled labile SRO's is investigated and its generic equation is presented. The relationship between an input stimulus and an output rhythmic activity of an SRO is described in a computer-simulated example. Also, a tubular structure of nine coupled labile SRO's exhibiting apparently propagating bursts of rhythmic activity is simulated.