Destabilization of synchronous periodic solutions for patch models (Q6046131)

This paper is concerned with the destabilization of synchronous periodic solutions for general patch-models with cross-diffusion-like couplings, where the underlying kinetic systems have stable periodic solutions bifurcating from double homoclinic loops. The authors first reduce the stability problem of synchronous periodic solutions for patch models into that for lower-dimensional systems, then analyze the destabilization by using the Floquet theory and solving a class of boundary value problems. Finally, they apply the main results to a patch model with a two-dimensional kinetic system. The main results of this paper are interesting and new.