Threshold phenomena for a reaction-diffusion system |
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Authors: | David Terman |
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Affiliation: | Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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Abstract: | We consider the pure initial value problem for the system of equations , the initial data being (ν(x, 0), w(x, 0)) = (?(x), 0). Here , where H is the Heaviside step function and . This system is of the FitzHugh-Nagumo type and has several applications including nerve conduction and distributed chemical/ biochemical systems. It is demonstrated that this system exhibits a threshold phenomenon. This is done by considering the curve s(t) defined by s(t) = sup{x: v(x, t) = a}. The initial datum, ?(x), is said to be superthreshold if limt→∞ s(t) = ∞. It is proven that the initial datum is superthreshold if ?(x) > a on a sufficiently long interval, ?(x) is sufficiently smooth, and ?(x) decays sufficiently fast to zero as . |
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