The structure of the quiescent core in rigidly rotating spirals in a class of excitable systems

We consider a class of excitable system whose dynamics is de- scribed by Fitzhugh-Nagumo (FN) equations. We provide a description for rigidly rotating spirals based on the fact that one of the unknowns develops abrupt jumps in some regions of the space. The core of the spiral is delim- ited by these...

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Autores: Aguareles Carrero, Maria, Fontelos, Marco A., Velázquez, Juan J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/11254
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/11254
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Equacions de reacció-difusió
Reaction-diffusion equations
Equacions diferencials parabòliques
Differential equations, Parabolic
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Sumario:We consider a class of excitable system whose dynamics is de- scribed by Fitzhugh-Nagumo (FN) equations. We provide a description for rigidly rotating spirals based on the fact that one of the unknowns develops abrupt jumps in some regions of the space. The core of the spiral is delim- ited by these regions. The description of the spiral is made using a mixture of asymptotic and rigorous arguments. Several open problems whose rigorous solution would provide insight in the problem are formulated.