Stabilization to the standing wave in a simple caricature of the nerve equation

DOI10.1002/cpa.3160390403zbMath0594.92006OpenAlexW2126766821MaRDI QIDQ3725914

Victor H. Moll, H. P. jun. McKean

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.3160390403

zbMATH Keywords

neurophysiologyHodgkin-Huxley equationthreshold principleinfinitesimal stabilityFeynman-Kac formalismbell-shaped standing wavecaricature of the nerve equationcodimension 1 saddle point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Parabolic equations and parabolic systems (35K99) Qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations (35B99) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92Cxx)

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