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We study the propagation of traveling solitary pulses in one-dimensional ne
tworks of excitatory and inhibitory integrate-and-fire neurons. Slow pulses
, during which inhibitory cells fire well before neighboring excitatory cel
ls, can propagate along the network at intermediate inhibition levels. At h
igher levels, they destabilize via a Hopf bifurcation. There is a bistable
parameter regime in which both fast and slow pulses can propagate. Lurching
pulses with spatiotemporal periodicity can propagate in regimes for which
continuous pulses do not exist.