Geometric analysis of oscillations in the Frzilator model

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Publication:1995803



Abstract: A biochemical oscillator model, describing developmental stage of myxobacteria, is analyzed mathematically. Observations from numerical simulations show that in a certain range of parameters, the corresponding system of ordinary differential equations displays stable and robust oscillations. In this work, we use geometric singular perturbation theory and blow-up method to prove the existence of a strongly attracting limit cycle. This cycle corresponds to a relaxation oscillation of an auxiliary system, whose singular perturbation nature originates from the small Michaelis-Menten constants of the biochemical model. In addition, we give a detailed description of the structure of the limit cycle, and the timescales along it.


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.





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