University of Heidelberg, Applied Analysis Seminar
Thu 07.02.2019
14:15, posted in Applied Analysis
Izumi Takagi (Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Renmin University of China, Beijing)
How simple or how complex the dynamics of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations with nondiffusive activator are-Shadow system analysis
INF 205, SR1

Abstract:
The FitzHugh-Nagumo equations have been studied from various viewpoints such as traveling pulses, pattern formation, and so on. In this talk we study the case where the activator does not diffuse. This may be regarded as a reference system for pattern formation in ODE-RD systems. Our fundamental interest lies in understanding the relationship between the initial disturbance and the final pattern.
For this purpose, we reduce the system as simple as possible by taking the limit of large diffusion rate of the inhibitor and furthermore by considering the quasi-stationary approximation for the inhibitor. We report some rigorous results on the long time behavior of solutions of the initial-boundary value problem for this simplified model, restricting ourselves to special class of initial functions (joint work with Ying Li).

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