Fredholm theory for the mean first-passage time of integrate-and-fire oscillators with colored noise input

Abstract: We develop a method to investigate the effect of noise timescales on the first-passage time of nonlinear oscillators. Using Fredholm theory, we derive an exact integral equation for the mean event rate of a leaky-integrate-and-fire oscillator that receives constant input and temporally correlated noise. Furthermore, we show that Fredholm theory provides a unified framework to determine system scaling behavior for small and large noise timescales. In this framework, the leading order and higher-order asymptotic corrections for slow and fast noise are naturally emerging. We show the scaling behavior in the both limits are not reciprocal. We discuss further how this approach can be extended to study the first-passage time in a general class of nonlinear oscillators driven by colored noise at arbitrary timescales.