Stabilization to the standing wave in a simple caricature of the nerve equation
Stabilization to the standing wave in a simple caricature of the nerve equation
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神经方程简单漫画中驻波的稳定性
DOI:
10.1002/cpa.3160390403
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
V. Moll
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作者:
H. McKean;V. Moll
The conduction of the nervous impulse in the optical nerve of a squid was described by Hodgkin-Hwdey in 1952; see Hodgkm [9]. The physiological fact to be modeled is that if the nerve is stimulated below a threshold level then the signal damps out and no information is transmitted, while if it is stimulated above threshold then the signal undergoes a fast change into a train of pulses of more or less fixed shape which travel down the nerve with little distortion. The form of the equation is in which f is a non-linear function of u and its past. The mathematical problem is to classify the possible wave solutions Ti (x-kt) and to prove that every solution u (x, t) of a proper initial size and shape, tracked at the proper speed k, stabilizes to a translate of one of them: lirntT, u (x+ kt, t)= U (x-m). Rinzel [16], Cohen [l], and Hadeler [7] review the mathematical model and its several simplifications. The first simplification was proposed by Fitzhugh [6] who noticed the similarity between (1) and van der Pol's equation. Nagumo et al.[15] used this equation to model nerve transmission by a tunnel diode network. The equation is a2u+ u (1-u)(u-u)+ u, au at ax2