Amplitude equations for reaction-diffusion systems with a Hopf bifurcation and slow real modes (Q1961659)

The authors demonstrate that slow models may sometimes be described in terms of amplitude equations for a reaction-diffusion system with a Hopf bifurcation. The main result of this paper is a general amplitude equation for a Hopf bifurcation and any number of critical real modes. In this way it is described the effect of a slow real mode near a Hopf bifurcation, as well as the fact that a Ginzburg-Landau approximation cannot be considered reliable for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky system.