Monotonicity of phaselocked solutions in chains and arrays of nearest-neighbor coupled oscillators

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 208-234

  Ren, Liwei ^a   Ermentrout, G Bard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled oscillators; Neurons; Phaselocking; Target patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032353077     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141096298837     Document Type: Article

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