Stability of N-fronts bifurcating from a twisted heteroclinic loop and an application to the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 183-207

  Sandstede, Björn ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WIAS   (Germany)

Author keywords

FitzHugh Nagumo equation; Heteroclinic orbits; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032338132     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141096297388     Document Type: Article

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