Periodic solutions of a periodic FitzHugh-Nagumo differential system

Agraïments: The second author is partially supported by Dirección de Investigación DIUBB 1204084/R.Recently some interest has appeared for the periodic FitzHugh-Nagumo differential systems. Here, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions in such differential systems

Leap-frog patterns in systems of two coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo units

We study a system of two identical FitzHugh-Nagumo units with a mutual linear coupling in the fast variables. While an attractive coupling always leads to synchronous behavior, a repulsive coupling can give rise to dynamical regimes with alternating spiking order, called leap-frogging. We analyze various types of periodic and chaotic leap-frogging regimes, using numerical pathfollowing methods to investigate their emergence and stability, as well as to obtain the complex bifurcation scenario which organizes their appearance in parameter space. In particular, we show that the stability region of the simplest periodic leap-frog pattern has the shape of a locking cone pointing to the canard transition of the uncoupled system. We also discuss the role of the timescale separation in the coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo system and the relation of the leap-frog solutions to the theory of mixed-mode oscillations in multiple timescale systems

Leap-frog patterns in systems of two coupled FitzHugh--Nagumo units

We study a system of two identical FitzHugh-Nagumo units with a mutual linear coupling in the fast variables. While an attractive coupling always leads to synchronous behavior, a repulsive coupling can give rise to dynamical regimes with alternating spiking order, called leap-frogging. We analyze various types of periodic and chaotic leap-frogging regimes, using numerical pathfollowing methods to investigate their emergence and stability, as well as to obtain the complex bifurcation scenario which organizes their appearance in parameter space. In particular, we show that the stability region of the simplest periodic leap-frog pattern has the shape of a locking cone pointing to the canard transition of the uncoupled system. We also discuss the role of the timescale separation in the coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo system and the relation of the leap-frog solutions to the theory of mixed-mode oscillations in multiple timescale systems

Symbolic computation and construction of new exact traveling wave solutions to Fitzhugh-Nagumo and Klein-Gordon equations

With the aid of the symbolic computation system Mathematica, many exact solutions for the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation and the Klein-Gordon equation with a quadratic nonlinearity are constructed by an auxiliary equation method, the so-called (G'/G)-expansion method, where the new and more general forms of solutions are also obtained. Periodic and solitary traveling wave solutions capable of moving in both directions are observed

Phase Dynamics of Nearly Stationary Patterns in Activator-Inhibitor Systems

The slow dynamics of nearly stationary patterns in a FitzHugh-Nagumo model are studied using a phase dynamics approach. A Cross-Newell phase equation describing slow and weak modulations of periodic stationary solutions is derived. The derivation applies to the bistable, excitable, and the Turing unstable regimes. In the bistable case stability thresholds are obtained for the Eckhaus and the zigzag instabilities and for the transition to traveling waves. Neutral stability curves demonstrate the destabilization of stationary planar patterns at low wavenumbers to zigzag and traveling modes. Numerical solutions of the model system support the theoretical findings

Zero-Hopf bifurcation in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system

We characterize the values of the parameters for which a zero--Hopf equilibrium point takes place at the singular points, namely, $O$ (the origin), $P_+$ and $P_-$ in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Thus we find two $2$--parameter families of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system for which the equilibrium point at the origin is a zero-Hopf equilibrium. For these two families we prove the existence of a periodic orbit bifurcating from the zero--Hopf equilibrium point $O$. We prove that exist three $2$--parameter families of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system for which the equilibrium point at $P_+$ and $P_-$ is a zero-Hopf equilibrium point. For one of these families we prove the existence of $1$, or $2$, or $3$ periodic orbits borning at $P_+$ and $P_-$

New results on averaging theory and applications

Agraïments: The first author is supported by CNPq 248501/2013-5. CAPES grant 88881.030454 /2013-01 from the Program CSF-PVEThe usual averaging theory reduces the computation of some periodic solutions of a system of ordinary differential equations, to find the simple zeros of an associated averaged function. When one of these zeros is not simple, i.e. the Jacobian of the averaged function in it is zero, the classical averaging theory does not provide information about the periodic solution associated to a non simple zero. Here we provide sufficient conditions in order that the averaging theory can be applied also to non simple zeros for studying their associated periodic solutions. Additionally we do two applications of this new result for studying the zero--Hopf bifurcation in the Lorenz system and in the Fitzhugh--Nagumo system