Global Coupling of an Interface Problem in an Activator-inhibitor System

Authors

  • YoonMee Ham

Keywords:

activator-inhibitor;van der Pol equation;global coupling;free boundary problem;Hopf bifurcation

Abstract

" An activator-inhibitor reaction system with global coupling was introduced in [1]. The authors showed that global coupling suppresses the breathing motion and enhances the propagation of the localized solution. The collision between two traveling waves for a sufficiently strong global coupling is discussed in [2]. If the width of layers is infinitesimally thin, the equation of motion for a pair of the interfaces is derived. We shall study the dynamics of interfaces in the free boundary problem with global coupling and with a strong global coupling."

Published

2003-05-02

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