Essential instabilities of fronts: Bifurcation, and bifurcation failure

Dynamical Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-28

  Sandstede, Björn ^a   Scheel, Arnd ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HOPF BIFURCATIONS; NAGUMO EQUATION; REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0035297089     PISSN: 14689367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02681110010001270     Document Type: Article

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