Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience (2011) 1:5 DOI 10.1186/2190-8567-1-5 RESEARCH Open

Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience (2011) 1:5 DOI 10.1186/2190-8567-1-5 RESEARCH Open Access Signal processing in the cochlea: the structure equations Hans Martin Reimann Received: 15 November 2010 / Accepted: 6 June 2011 / Published online: 6 June 2011 © 2011 Reimann; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Abstract Background: Physical and physiological invariance laws, in particular time invariance and local symmetry, are at the outset of an abstract model. Harmonic analysis and Lie theory are the mathematical prerequisites for its deduction. Results: The main result is a linear system of partial differential equations...