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Hailong Yuan, Yani Ma, Yanfei Dai. BIFURCATION AND SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN A HOMOGENEOUS DIFFUSIVE GIERER-MEINHARDT SYSTEM[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2026, 16(2): 860-894. doi: 10.11948/20230330
Citation: Hailong Yuan, Yani Ma, Yanfei Dai. BIFURCATION AND SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN A HOMOGENEOUS DIFFUSIVE GIERER-MEINHARDT SYSTEM[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2026, 16(2): 860-894. doi: 10.11948/20230330

BIFURCATION AND SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN A HOMOGENEOUS DIFFUSIVE GIERER-MEINHARDT SYSTEM

  • Author Bio: Email: 1360469187@qq.com(Y. Ma); Email: gnsydyf@126.com(Y. Dai)
  • Corresponding author: Email: yuanhailong@sust.edu.cn(H. Yuan) 
  • Fund Project: This authors were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11901370, 12301215), Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shannxi Province (2019JQ516), Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education grant (19JK0142), Natural Science Foundation of China (2019M653578), Shaanxi Provincial Association for Science and Technology, China (20200508), and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ23A010009)
  • This paper investigates an activator-inhibitor system with diffusion under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. Firstly, we consider the Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium, and obtain the conditions for determining the bifurcation direction and stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions. Secondly, we demonstrate that the system undergoes a Turing-Hopf bifurcation with codimension-two. By calculating the normal form on the center manifold, we show that the system has the complex spatiotemporal dynamics near the Turing-Hopf bifurcation point. Moreover, the Turing instability of the positive equilibrium is discussed. By the bifurcation theory, we establish the local structure of the steady state bifurcations, and describe some conditions for determining the direction of bifurcations. Finally, some numerical simulations are carried out to explain and supplement the results of various bifurcation analyses.

    MSC: 35K57
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