Geometric analysis of oscillations in the Frzilator model (Q1995803)

The authors analyze a biochemical oscillator 3-dimensional model that describes the developmental stage of a myxobacteria. Observations from numerical simulations show that the corresponding ordinary differential system displays stable and robust oscillations. The existence of an attracting limit cycle is proved using geometric singular perturbation theory and blow-up method. It corresponds to a relaxation oscillation of an auxiliary system, whose singular perturbation nature originates from the small Michaelis-Menten constants of the biochemical model.