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Cross-diffusion systems play a central role in mathematical modelling, in which density-dependent dispersal and multiscale mechanisms can lead to spatial segregation and diffusion-driven instabilities. In several relevant examples,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Brocchieri Elisabetta , Soresina Cinzia

Dynamical reaction-diffusion processes and meta-population models are standard modeling approaches for a wide variety of phenomena in which local quantities - such as density, potential and particles - diffuse and interact according to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Colizza , R. Pastor-Satorras , A. Vespignani

Mathematical models of reaction networks can exhibit very complex dynamics, including multistability, oscillations, and chaotic dynamics. On the other hand, under some additional assumptions on the network or on parameter values, these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Gheorghe Craciun , Abhishek Deshpande , Jiaxin Jin

We define the topological Dirac equation describing the evolution of a topological wave function on networks or on simplicial complexes. On networks, the topological wave function describes the dynamics of topological signals or cochains,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-27 Ginestra Bianconi

Reaction-diffusion processes across layered media arise in several scientific domains such as pattern-forming E. coli on agar substrates, epidermal-mesenchymal coupling in development, and symmetry-breaking in cell polarisation. We develop…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-18 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Jacob Halatek , Paul K. Grant , Thomas E. Woolley , Neil Dalchau , Eamonn A. Gaffney

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

In this article we formulate new models for coupled systems of bulk-surface reaction-diffusion equations on stationary volumes. The bulk reaction-diffusion equations are coupled to the surface reaction-diffusion equations through linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Anotida Madzvamuse , Andy H. W. Chung , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

Symmetry-breaking instabilities play an important role in understanding the mechanisms underlying the diversity of patterns observed in nature, such as in Turing's reaction--diffusion theory, which connects cellular signalling and transport…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew L. Krause , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Thomas Jun Jewell , Václav Klika , Benjamin J. Walker

Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

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

Digital signal theory is an extension of the analysis of continuous signals. This extension is provided by discretization and sampling. The sampling of signals can be mathematically described by a series of Dirac impulses and is well known.…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Iwan Feras Fattohi , Christian Prehofer , Frank Slomka

Biological, physical, medical, and numerical applications involving membrane problems on different scales are numerous. We propose an extension of the standard Turing theory to the case of two domains separated by a permeable membrane. To…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Giorgia Ciavolella

The study of pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems on growing or otherwise time-dependent domains arises in a variety of settings, including applications in developmental biology, spatial ecology, and experimental…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-11 Robert A. Van Gorder , Václav Klika , Andrew L. Krause

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the spontaneous generation of self-organized patterns, hypothesised to play a role in the formation of many of the magnificent patterns observed in Nature. In several cases of interest, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Philip K. Maini , Timoteo Carletti

Long after Turing's seminal Reaction-Diffusion (RD) model, the elegance of his fundamental equations alleviated much of the skepticism surrounding pattern formation. Though Turing model is a simplification and an idealization, it is one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Litu Rout

Diffusion processes are instrumental to describe the movement of a continuous quantity in a generic network of interacting agents. Here, we present a probabilistic framework for diffusion in networks and propose to classify agent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Matthias Wildemeersch , Tony Q. S. Quek

This study investigates transient wave dynamics in Turing pattern formation, focusing on waves emerging from localised disturbances. While the traditional focus of diffusion-driven instability has primarily centred on stationary solutions,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-15 Václav Klika , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Philip K. Maini

We are surrounded by spatio-temporal patterns resulting from the interaction of the numerous basic units constituting natural or human-made systems. In presence of diffusive-like coupling, Turing theory has been largely applied to explain…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Marie Dorchain , S. Nirmala Jenifer , Timoteo Carletti

The Dirac operator provides a unified framework for processing signals defined over different order topological domains, such as node and edge signals. Its eigenmodes define a spectral representation that inherently captures cross-domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Leonardo Di Nino , Tiziana Cattai , Sergio Barbarossa , Ginestra Bianconi , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Turing patterns are a central paradigm for describing spatial patterns in nature. The corresponding theory of reaction-diffusion dynamics combines ideal diffusion with nonlinear reactions, resulting in patterns when species diffuse at…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker