Homoclinic bifurcations at the onset of pulse self-replication

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 359-423

  Doelman, Arjen ^a,b   Kaper, Tasso J ^c   Peletier, Lambertus A ^a,d  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Homoclinic bifurcations; Multi pulse orbits; Reaction diffusion equations; Self replicating pulses; Symmetric homoclinic orbits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748802771     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2006.03.026     Document Type: Article

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