The stable manifold of the standing wave of the Nagumo equation
The stable manifold of the standing wave of the Nagumo equation
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Nagumo方程驻波的稳定流形
DOI:
10.1016/0022-0396(89)90086-7
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
G. Flores
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作者:
G. Flores
The conduction of electrical impulses along a nerve axon was described by Hodgkin and Huxley [8]. On physiological grounds, it is expected that the voltage travels along the nerve with little distortion of the shape and amplitude, and at nearly constant speed, except when the nerve is stimulated below a certain threshold, in which case the signal is damped out and no information is transmitted. The mathematical problem is to classify the traveling waves and steady states, and to prove that solutions of appropriate initial size and shape converge to one of these special solutions. The difficulty of the equations proposed by Hodgkin and Huxley has led to the introduction of simpler models of nerve conduction. The first simplification was suggested by FitzHugh [6], who found a good model in a class of Van der Pol oscillators. Following this idea, Nagumo et al.[111 used an electric circuit to simulate a nerve axon. The propagation of pulses in this circuit is governed by the system of equations