Stable bound states of pulses in an excitable medium
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Stable bound states of pulses in an excitable medium
zbMATH Open document ID: 0945.34032
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00136-0
author: Michal Or-Guil
author: I. G. Kevrekidis
author: Markus Bär
published in: Physica D
publication date: 2000-09-19T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors' summary: ``The interaction of one-dimensional pulses are studied in the excitable regime of a two-variable reaction-diffusion model. The model is capable of exhibiting long range attraction of pulses and formation of stable bound pulse states. The important features of pulse interactions can be captured by a combination of various analytical and numerical methods. A kinematic ansatz treating pulses as particle-like interacting structures is described. Their interaction is determined using the dispersion relation for pulse trains, which gives the dependance of the speed \(c(d)\) of the wavetrain on its wavelength \(d\). Anomalous dispersion for large \(d\), i.e. a negative slope of \(c(d)\), corresponds to long range pulse attraction. Stable bound pairs are possible if the medium exhibits long range attraction and there is at least one maximum of the dispersion curve. The authors compare predictions of the kinematic theory with numerical simulations and stability analysis. If the slope of the dispersion curve changes sign, branches of nonequidistant pulse train solutions bifurcate and may lead to bound pulse states. The transition from normal long range dispersion, typical in excitable media, to the anomalous dispersion studied here can be understood through a multiscale perturbation theory for pulse interactions. The authors derive the relevant equations, which yield an analytic expression for nonmonotonic dispersion curves with a finite number of extrema''.
reviewed by: Ivan Ginchev
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34C60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37N10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 74F10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35K57
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76V05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34E13
zbMATH DE Number: 1394442
zbMATH Keywords: stable bound states
zbMATH Keywords: pulses
zbMATH Keywords: excitable medium
zbMATH Keywords: kinematic theory
zbMATH Keywords: numerical simulations
zbMATH Keywords: stability analysis
zbMATH Keywords: multiscale perturbation theory
zbMATH Keywords: pulse interactions
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