Butterfly catastrophe for fronts in a three-component reaction-diffusion system

Abstract We study the dynamics of front solutions in a three-component reaction-diffusion system via a combination of geometric singular perturbation theory, Evans function analysis and center manifold reduction. The reduced system exhibits a surprisingly complicated bifurcation structure including a butterfly catastrophe. Our results shed light on numerically observed accelerations and oscillations and pave the way for the analysis of front interactions in a parameter regime where the essential spectrum of a single front approaches the imaginary axis asymptotically

Unfolding symmetric Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations for front dynamics in a reaction-diffusion system

This manuscript extends the analysis of a much studied singularly perturbed three-component reaction-diffusion system for front dynamics in the regime where the essential spectrum is close to the origin. We confirm a conjecture from a preceding paper by proving that the triple multiplicity of the zero eigenvalue gives a Jordan chain of length three. Moreover, we simplify the center manifold reduction and computation of the normal form coefficients by using the Evans function for the eigenvalues. Finally, we prove the unfolding of a Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation with symmetry in the model. This leads to stable periodic front motion, including stable traveling breathers, and these results are illustrated by numerical computations.Comment: 39 pages, 7 figure

Traveling pulse solutions in a three-component FitzHugh-Nagumo Model

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

Butterfly catastrophe for fronts in a three-component reaction-diffusion system

We study the dynamics of front solutions in a three-component reaction–diffusion system via a combination of geometric singular perturbation theory, Evans function analysis, and center manifold reduction. The reduced system exhibits a surprisingly complicated bifurcation structure including a butterfly catastrophe. Our results shed light on numerically observed accelerations and oscillations and pave the way for the analysis of front interactions in a parameter regime where the essential spectrum of a single front approaches the imaginary axis asymptotically

A geometric approach to stationary defect solutions in one space dimension

Analysis and Stochastic

A Geometric Approach to Stationary Defect Solutions in One Space Dimension

Analysis and Stochastic