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Propagation Failure in Excitable Media
Full text linkWe study a mechanism of pulse propagation failure in excitable media where
stable traveling pulse solutions appear via a subcritical pitchfork
bifurcation. The bifurcation plays a key role in that mechanism. Small
perturbations, externally applied or from internal instabilities, may cause
pulse propagation failure (wave breakup) provided the system is close enough to
the bifurcation point. We derive relations showing how the pitchfork
bifurcation is unfolded by weak curvature or advective field perturbations and
use them to demonstrate wave breakup. We suggest that the recent observations
of wave breakup in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction induced either by an
electric field or a transverse instability are manifestations of this
mechanism.Comment: 8 pages. Aric Hagberg: http://cnls.lanl.gov/~aric; Ehud
Meron:http://www.bgu.ac.il/BIDR/research/staff/meron.htm
Conflict of Laws--Equal Footing Doctrine Does Not Require Application of Federal Common Law to Resolve Ownership of Land Underlying Navigable Waterways Which Are Not Interstate Boundaries
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Polishing the Tarnished Silver Platter Doctrine: The Effect of Janis v. united States on Intersovereign Fourth Amendment Violations
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Insurance--Forfeiture of Policy--Insanity Not an Excuse for Failure to Notify Insurer as to Total Disability
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Breathing Spots in a Reaction-Diffusion System
Full text linkA quasi-2-dimensional stationary spot in a disk-shaped chemical reactor is
observed to bifurcate to an oscillating spot when a control parameter is
increased beyond a critical value. Further increase of the control parameter
leads to the collapse and disappearance of the spot. Analysis of a bistable
activator-inhibitor model indicates that the observed behavior is a consequence
of interaction of the front with the boundary near a parity breaking front
bifurcation.Comment: 4 pages RevTeX, see also http://chaos.ph.utexas.edu/ and
http://t7.lanl.gov/People/Aric
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