A normal form for excitable media

DOI10.1063/1.2168393MaRDI QIDQ3529650zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Georg A. Gottwald, Lorenz Kramer

Publication date 14 October 2008

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0603032

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

Abstract: We present a normal form for travelling waves in one-dimensional excitable media in form of a differential delay equation. The normal form is built around the well-known saddle-node bifurcation generically present in excitable media. Finite wavelength effects are captured by a delay. The normal form describes the behaviour of single pulses in a periodic domain and also the richer behaviour of wave trains. The normal form exhibits a symmetry preserving Hopf bifurcation which may coalesce with the saddle-node in a Bogdanov-Takens point, and a symmetry breaking spatially inhomogeneous pitchfork bifurcation. We verify the existence of these bifurcations in numerical simulations. The parameters of the normal form are determined and its predictions are tested against numerical simulations of partial differential equation models of excitable media with good agreement.

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