Spectrum of a linearized amplitude equation for alternans in a cardiac fiber

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 704-719

  Dai, Shu ^a   Schaeffer, David G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude equation; Cardiac alternans; Spectrum

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMPLITUDE EQUATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CARDIAC ALTERNANS; CARDIAC CELL; CARDIAC MODEL; LINEARIZED OPERATORS; LONG DURATION; LONG FIBER; PARAMETER RANGE; PERIOD DOUBLING BIFURCATION; PHASE REVERSAL; SMALL DISPERSION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SPECTRUM; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION; WEAK APPROXIMATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBERS; LINEARIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 66149134822     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070711384     Document Type: Article

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