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We study a p-adic reaction-diffusion system and the associated Turing patterns. We establish an instability criteria and show that the Turing patterns are not classical patterns consisting of alternating domains. Instead of this, a Turing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

Pattern formation is a visual understanding of the dynamics of complex systems. Patterns arise in many ways, such as the segmentation of animals, bacterial colonies during growth, vegetation, chemical reactions, etc. In most cases, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Swadesh Pal , Roderick Melnik , Malay Banerjee

Spatial distribution of the human population is distinctly heterogeneous, e.g. showing significant difference in the population density between urban and rural areas. In the historical perspective, i.e. on the timescale of centuries, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-08-30 Anna Zincenko , Sergei Petrovskii , Vitaly Volpert

Confirming Turing's theory of morphogens in developmental processes is challenging, and synthetic biology has opened new avenues for testing Turing's predictions. Synthetic mammalian pattern formation has been recently achieved through a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-22 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Saad Benjelloun , Adnane Saoud , Irene Otero-Muras

Although the pattern formation on polymer gels has been considered as a result of the mechanical instability due to the volume phase transition, we found a macroscopic surface pattern formation not caused by the mechanical instability. It…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Katsuragi

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

In this work we investigate the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Brusselator system. Through linear stability analysis of the basic solution we determine the Turing and the oscillatory instability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino , V. Sciacca

Analytically tracking patterns emerging from a small amplitude Turing instability to large amplitude remains a challenge as no general theory exists. In this paper, we consider a three component reaction-diffusion system with one of its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Christopher Brown , Gianne Derks , Peter van Heijster , David J. B. Lloyd

We investigate Turing instability and pattern formation in two-dimensional domains for two reaction-diffusion models, obtained as diffusive limits of kinetic equations for mixtures of monatomic and polyatomic gases. The first model is of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Stefano Boccelli , Giorgio Martalò , Romina Travaglini

While our understanding of the way single neurons process chromatic stimuli in the early visual pathway has advanced significantly in recent years, we do not yet know how these cells interact to form stable representations of hue. Drawing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-18 Zily Burstein , David D. Reid , Peter J. Thomas , Jack D. Cowan

We propose general conditions for the emergence of Turing patterns in a domain that changes size through homogeneous growth/shrinkage based on the qualitative changes of a potential function. For this part of the work, we consider the most…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-10-03 Aldo Ledesma-Durán

The patterns observed on the body surface of living organisms have traditionally been attributed solely to ecological strategies. However, this study investigates a fascinating phenomenon in Pelodiscus sinensis, where patterns formed on the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Shin Nishihara , Toru Ohira

We study pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-advection-diffusion systems. We develop an approach based on Lyapunov-Bloch exponents to figure out the impact of a spatially periodic mixing flow on the stability of a spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-15 A. V. Straube , A. Pikovsky

This study examines how patterns on mammal body surfaces change as they transition from juveniles to adults and with seasonal variations. Our previous research suggests that patterns formed in infancy may fade due to the growing domain…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Shin Nishihara , Toru Ohira

This paper investigates pattern formation in reaction--diffusion systems with both diffusive and nondiffusive components, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for diffusion-driven instability (DDI) and establishing the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Théo André , Szymon Cygan , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Finn Münnich

A model of pattern formation in living systems is presented. The pattern is achieved by the sequential interaction of two signaling pathways. The coupling of the pattern to the (thick) epithelial sheet changes is given, when the Gauss…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2009-05-11 Frederick W. Cummings

Self-organization in natural and engineered systems causes the emergence of ordered spatio-temporal motifs. In presence of diffusive species, Turing theory has been widely used to understand the formation of such patterns on continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti

Coupling diffusion process of signaling molecules with nonlinear interactions of intracellular processes and cellular growth/transformation leads to a system of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Madoka Nakayama , Izumi Takagi

In his 1952 paper "The chemical basis of morphogenesis", Alan M. Turing presented a model for the formation of skin patterns. While it took several decades, the model has been validated by finding corresponding natural phenomena, e.g. in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-16 Martin Skrodzki , Ulrich Reitebuch , Eric Zimmermann

The emergence of stable disordered patterns in reactive system on spatially homogenous substrate is studied in the context of vegetation patterns in the semi-arid climatic zone. It is shown that reaction-diffusion systems that allow for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Alon Manor , Nadav M. Shnerb