Existence of standing pulse solutions to a skew-gradient system (Q2232182)

In the paper under review, the authors investigate the following system \[ \begin{cases} d u_{x x}+f(u)-v=0, \\ v_{x x}-\gamma v-B v^{3}+u=0 \end{cases}\] on \((-\infty, \infty)\) for small \(\gamma\) and \(d\), which is related to the steady states involving a class of reaction diffusion equations. As we see, this work is the first attempt to show the existence of standing pulse solutions on \((-\infty,\infty)\) in a FitzHugh-Nagumo type system to account for nonlinear dependence of the inhibitor reaction term. Using a variational approach that involves several nonlocal terms, the authors establish the existence of standing pulse solutions with a sign change, when the parameters are restricted to some reasonable ranges. In addition, they explored some qualitative properties of the standing pulse solutions.