Asymptotic profiles for a traveling front solution of a biological equation

DOI10.1142/S0218202511005696zbMATH Open1252.35061arXiv1005.1729WikidataQ113777326 ScholiaQ113777326MaRDI QIDQ2890983FDOQ2890983

Romain Joly, Guillemette Chapuisat

Publication date: 12 June 2012

Published in: M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are interested in the existence of depolarization waves in the human brain. These waves propagate in the grey matter and are absorbed in the white matter. We consider a two-dimensional model $u_t=Deltau+f(u)1_{|y|leqR}-alphau{1}_{|y|>R}$, with $f$ a bistable nonlinearity taking effect only on the domain $Rmimes[-R,R]$, which represents the grey matter layer. We study the existence, the stability and the energy of non-trivial asymptotic profiles of possible travelling fronts. For this purpose, we present dynamical systems technics and graphic criteria based on Sturm-Liouville theory and apply them to the above equation. This yields three different behaviours of the solution $u$ after stimulation, depending of the thickness $R$ of the grey matter. This may partly explain the difficulties to observe depolarization waves in the human brain and the failure of several therapeutic trials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1729

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zbMATH Keywords

Sturm-Liouville theoryspreading depression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural biology (92C20) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58)

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