An asymptotic analysis of localized three-dimensional spot patterns for the Gierer-Meinhardt model: existence, linear stability, and slow dynamics

DOI10.1137/20M135707XzbMATH Open1462.35031arXiv2008.04535MaRDI QIDQ4986535FDOQ4986535

Juncheng Wei, Michael J. Ward, Daniel Gómez

Publication date: 27 April 2021

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

Abstract: Localized spot patterns, where one or more solution components concentrates at certain points in the domain, are a common class of localized pattern for reaction-diffusion systems, and they arise in a wide range of modeling scenarios. In an arbitrary bounded 3-D domain, the existence, linear stability, and slow dynamics of localized multi-spot patterns is analyzed for the well-known singularly perturbed Gierer-Meinhardt (GM) activator-inhibitor system in the limit of a small activator diffusivity $varepsilo{n}^{2}ll1$. Our main focus is to classify the different types of multi-spot patterns, and predict their linear stability properties, for different asymptotic ranges of the inhibitor diffusivity $D$. For the range $D=mathcalO(varepsilo{n}^{-1})gg1$, although both symmetric and asymmetric quasi-equilibrium spot patterns can be constructed, the asymmetric patterns are shown to be always unstable. On this range of $D$, it is shown that symmetric spot patterns can undergo either competition instabilities or a Hopf bifurcation, leading to spot annihilation or temporal spot amplitude oscillations, respectively. For $D=mathcalO(1)$, only symmetric spot quasi-equilibria exist and they are linearly stable on $mathcalO(1)$ time intervals. On this range, it is shown that the spot locations evolve slowly on an $mathcalO(varepsilo{n}^{-3})$ time scale towards their equilibrium locations according to an ODE gradient flow, which is determined by a discrete energy involving the reduced-wave Green's function. The central role of the far-field behavior of a certain core problem, which characterizes the profile of a localized spot, for the construction of quasi-equilibria in the $D=mathcalO(1)$ and $D=mathcalO(varepsilo{n}^{-1})$ regimes, and in establishing some of their linear stability properties, is emphasized.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04535

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zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionssmall activator diffusivitylocalized spot patterns

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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