Stabilization to the standing wave in a simple caricature of the nerve equation

DOI10.1002/cpa.3160390403zbMath0594.92006MaRDI QIDQ3725914

Victor H. Moll, H. P. jun. McKean

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.3160390403

zbMATH Keywords

neurophysiology; Hodgkin-Huxley equation; threshold principle; infinitesimal stability; Feynman-Kac formalism; bell-shaped standing wave; caricature of the nerve equation; codimension 1 saddle point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B35: Stability in context of PDEs

58J99: Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators

35R35: Free boundary problems for PDEs

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

35K99: Parabolic equations and parabolic systems

35B99: Qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations

92Cxx: Physiological, cellular and medical topics

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