The dynamics of multispike solutions to the one-dimensional Gierer-Meinhardt model

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1924-1951

  Iron, David ^a   Ward, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

35B40; 35K57; Secondary; 92; Primary

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

SPIKE DYNAMICS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0036665085     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139901393676     Document Type: Article

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