Delayed bifurcation properties in the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation with periodic forcing (Q1909696)

The author studies the membrane activity of the giant axon of a squid under certain external periodic influences using the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation. After preliminary assumptions such as slow passage of the external electric current on the tissue and the analytic form of the external disturbances, the FHN equation describes the correlation between the action potential of a membrane and the recovering current. The membrane potential starts to oscillate if the electric current which the membrane is connected with is above the threshold. The membrane potential would accomodate until the current reaches a value considerably higher than the threshold point in the particular case of small current's rate of increasing. However, the amount of delay in the current is independent of the slowness of the increasing. The purpose of the author is to study the behaviour of the solutions of FHN equations with earlier presented assumptions because the existence and their regularities are quite standard. The nonresonance condition proposed by the author allows him to extend the delayed bifurcation results from some homogeneous solutions to certain persistent unstable spatially inhomogeneous solutions by showing the existence of the later ones. This nonresonance condition consists of the assumptions that the perturbations \(g_j (t)\) have analytic extensions both for the current \(I\) and for time \(t\), and that \(g_j\) are periodic with \(t\). More than that, the author succeeds to find and to calculate the maximum amount of delays.