Traveling pulse solutions in a three-component FitzHugh-Nagumo model
Traveling pulse solutions in a three-component FitzHugh-Nagumo model
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三分量 FitzHugh-Nagumo 模型中的行进脉冲解决方案
DOI:
10.1137/20m1334942
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Peter van Heijster
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作者:
Takashi Teramoto;Peter van Heijster
We use geometric singular perturbation techniques combined with an action functional approach to study traveling pulse solutions in a three-component FitzHugh--Nagumo model. First, we derive the profile of traveling 1-pulse solutions with undetermined width and propagating speed. Next, we compute the associated action functional for this profile from which we derive the conditions for existence and a saddle-node bifurcation as the zeros of the action functional and its derivatives. We obtain the same conditions by using a different analytical approach that exploits the singular limit of the problem. We also apply this methodology of the action functional to the problem for traveling 2-pulse solutions and derive the explicit conditions for existence and a saddle-node bifurcation. From these we deduce a necessary condition for the existence of traveling 2-pulse solutions. We end this article with a discussion related to Hopf bifurcations near the saddle-node bifurcation. (A corrected version is attached.)