Weak and strong interaction of excitation kinks in scalar parabolic equations

DOI10.1007/S10884-021-10040-2zbMATH Open1521.35111arXiv2012.00309OpenAlexW3189832666WikidataQ115383058 ScholiaQ115383058MaRDI QIDQ6132876FDOQ6132876

Dennis Ulbrich, Antoine Pauthier, Jens D. M. Rademacher

Publication date: 17 August 2023

Published in: Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by studies of the Greenberg-Hastings cellular automata (GHCA) as a caricature of excitable systems, in this paper we study kink-antikink dynamics in the perhaps simplest PDE model of excitable media given by the scalar reaction diffusion-type $heta$-equations for excitable angular phase dynamics. On the one hand, we qualitatively study geometric kink positions using the comparison principle and the theory of terraces. This yields the minimal initial distance as a global lower bound, a well-defined sequence of collision data for kinks- and antikinks, and implies that periodic pure kink sequences are asymptotically equidistant. On the other hand, we study metastable dynamics of finitely many kinks using weak interaction theory for certain analytic kink positions, which admits a rigorous reduction to ODE. By blow-up type singular rescaling we show that distances become ordered in finite time, and eventually diverge. We conclude that diffusion implies a loss of information on kink distances so that the entropic complexity based on positions and collisions in the GHCA does not simply carry over to the PDE model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00309

zbMATH Keywords

comparison principlekink dynamicsscalar parabolic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Inertial manifolds and other invariant attracting sets of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L25)

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