Synchronization of Pulse-Coupled Biological Oscillators

DOI10.1137/0150098zbMath0712.92006OpenAlexW2154953441WikidataQ56559575 ScholiaQ56559575MaRDI QIDQ3197658

Renato E. Mirollo, Steven H. Strogatz

Publication date: 1990

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0150098

zbMATH Keywords

menstrual cyclescardiac pacemakerfiring thresholdintegrate-and-fire oscillatorselectrically synchronous pacemaker cellssynchronous firing of biological oscillatorssynchronously flashing fireflies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Physiology (general) (92C30) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99)

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