EVANS FUNCTIONS AND BIFURCATIONS OF STANDING WAVE FRONTS OF A NONLINEAR SYSTEM OF REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS

Linghai Zhang

doi:10.11948/2016037

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Linghai Zhang. EVANS FUNCTIONS AND BIFURCATIONS OF STANDING WAVE FRONTS OF A NONLINEAR SYSTEM OF REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2016, 6(2): 515-530. doi: 10.11948/2016037

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Linghai Zhang. EVANS FUNCTIONS AND BIFURCATIONS OF STANDING WAVE FRONTS OF A NONLINEAR SYSTEM OF REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2016, 6(2): 515-530. doi: 10.11948/2016037

EVANS FUNCTIONS AND BIFURCATIONS OF STANDING WAVE FRONTS OF A NONLINEAR SYSTEM OF REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS

Linghai Zhang

Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, 14 East Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA

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Abstract

Consider the following nonlinear system of reaction diffusion equations arising from mathematical neuroscience ∂u/∂t=∂²u/∂x² + α[βH(u -θ) -u] -w,∂w/∂t=ε(u-γw).Also consider the nonlinear scalar reaction diffusion equation ∂u/∂t=∂²u/∂x² + α[βH(u -θ) -u].In these model equations, α>0, β>0, γ>0, ε>0 and θ>0 are positive constants, such that 0 < 2θ < β. In the model equations, u=u(x, t) represents the membrane potential of a neuron at position x and time t, w=w(x, t) represents the leaking current, a slow process that controls the excitation.
The main purpose of this paper is to couple together linearized stability criterion (the equivalence of the nonlinear stability, the linear stability and the spectral stability of the standing wave fronts) and Evans functions (complex analytic functions) to establish the existence, stability, instability and bifurcations of standing wave fronts of the nonlinear system of reaction diffusion equations and to establish the existence and stability of the standing wave fronts of the nonlinear scalar reaction diffusion equation.
- Nonlinear system of reaction diffusion equations /
- standing wave fronts /
- existence /
- stability /
- instability /
- bifurcation /
- linearized stability criterion /
- Evans functions
MSC: 35Q20

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