Turing-Hopf bifurcation and multi-stable spatio-temporal patterns in the Lengyel-Epstein system (Q2283093)

The authors investigate the dynamics of the Lengyel-Epstein system which describes the chemical reactions for 2 interacting reactants. The homogeneous stationary state can become unstable due to a single zero eigenvalue (``Turing bifurcation'') or by a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues. Close to the codimension 2 bifurcation point in parameter space, where both bifurcations occur simultaneously, the authors derive the bifurcation equations and present the bifurcation diagram. They also carry out numerical simulations and show many results, which according to the authors support the analytical findings. Instead of the dense plots over time the reviewer would have preferred some more sophisticated graphical representation of the results, like Poincaré sections, which would have better shown the fine details. The normal form bifurcation equations are presented including quadratic and cubic terms, but in the studied problem the quadratic terms are missing due to some symmetry. This might also explain, why no contributions by the infinitely many stable modes can be observed in the bifurcation equations, although the authors state, that the bifurcation equations express the dynamics restricted to the center manifold.