Traveling wave solutions in coupled Chua's circuits. I: Periodic solutions (Q2866698)

The authors study the existence of periodic traveling wave solutions of a one-dimensional array of infinitely many coupled Chua's circuits described by the system of differential equations NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{aligned} \dot u_k&=\alpha(y_k-h(u_k))+\bar{D}(u_{k-1}-2u_k+u_{k+1}), \\ \dot y_k&=u_k-y_k+z_k, \\ \dot z_k&=-\beta y_k,\;\beta>0,\;k\in\mathbb{Z}, \end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(h\) is \(N\)-shaped odd function of the class \(C^\infty\) and \(k\) is used as the index for the \(k\)-th circuit. The authors derive the singularly perturbed system for its traveling wave solutions of the form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{aligned} \epsilon\dot u&=v/D, \\ \epsilon\dot v&=h(u)-sv/D-y, \\ s\dot y&=y-u-z, \\ s\dot z&=\beta y, \end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where the parameter \(\epsilon\) is assumed to be small and positive.NEWLINENEWLINEUsing the techniques of singular perturbation theory, the authors construct a formal periodic solution and determine the correction terms to obtain the exact periodic traveling wave for small values of the parameter \(\epsilon\).