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Subcritical Hopf Bifurcations in the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model

Dynamical Systems 2020-07-22 v1

Abstract

It had been shown that the transition from a rigidly rotating spiral wave to a meandering spiral wave is via a Hopf bifurcation. Many studies have shown that these bifurcations are supercritical, but we present numerical studies which show that subcritical bifurcations are also present within FitzHugh-Nagumo. Furthermore, we present a evidence that this bifurcation is highly sensitive to initial conditions, and it is possible to convert one solution in the hysteresis loop to the other.

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@article{arxiv.2002.09588,
  title  = {Subcritical Hopf Bifurcations in the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model},
  author = {S. Sehgal and A. J. Foulkes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09588},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures