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Among the versatile forms of dynamical patterns of activity exhibited by the brain, oscillations are one of the most salient and extensively studied, yet are still far from being well understood. In this paper, we provide various structural characterizations of the existence of oscillatory behavior in neural networks using a classical neural mass model of mesoscale brain activity called linear-threshold dynamics. Exploiting the switched-affine nature of this dynamics, we obtain various necessary and/or sufficient conditions on the network structure and its external input for the existence of oscillations in (i) two-dimensional excitatory-inhibitory networks (E-I pairs), (ii) networks with one inhibitory but arbitrary number of excitatory nodes, (iii) purely inhibitory networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, and (iv) networks of E-I pairs. Throughout our treatment, and given the arbitrary dimensionality of the considered dynamics, we rely on the lack of stable equilibria as a system-based proxy for the existence of oscillations, and provide extensive numerical results to support its tight relationship with the more standard, signal-based definition of oscillations in computational neuroscience.
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