Resonance in excitable systems under step-function forcing II. Subharmonic solutions and persistence

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-110

  Xie, Min ^a   Othmer, Hans G ^a   Watanabe, Masaji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0012230141     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-2789(96)00092-9     Document Type: Article

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