We study spatiotemporal patterns of activity that emerge in neural fields in the presence of linear adaptation. Using an amplitude equation approach, we show that bifurcations from the homogeneous rest state can lead to a wide variety of stationary and propagating patterns, especially in the case of lateral-inhibitory synaptic weights. Typical solutions are stationary bumps, traveling bumps, an...

| Bifurcations of equilibrium points and limit cycles in unidirectionally coupled three oscillators are studied. According to their symmetrical properties, we classify equilibrium points and limit cycles into three and eight di erent types, respectively. Possible oscillations in unidirectional coupled three oscillators are presented by calculating Hopf bifurcation sets of equilibrium points. We...

We first consider the existence of local Hopf bifurcations, and then derive the explicit formulas which determine the stability, direction and other properties of bifurcating periodic solutions, using the normal form theory and center manifold reduction. Further, particular attention is focused on the existence of the global Hopf bifurcation. By using the global Hopf bifurcation theory due to W...

This book is a thin gem having two main parts: Part mDifferential Dynamical Systems and Part 2--Bifurcations. The approach to these subjects is a thorough grounding in dynamics on manifolds in finite-dimensional and Banach spaces, invariant sets and attractors, especially stable, unstable, and center manifolds for maps and semiflows; however, there is no mention of inertial manifolds, which are...

We investigate the steady-state solution and it’s bifurcations in time-delay systems with band-limited feedback. This is a first step in a rigorous study concerning the effects of AC-coupled components in nonlinear devices with time-delayed feedback. We show that the steady state is globally stable for small feedback gain and that local stability is lost, generically, through a Hopf bifurcation...

A general theory for the study of degenerate Hopf bifurcation in the presence of symmetry has been carried out only in situations where the normal form equations decoupte into phase/amplitude equations. In this paper we prove a theorem showing that in general we expect such degeneracies to lead to secondary torus bifurcations. We then apply this theorem to the case of degenerate Hopf bifurcatio...

A class of Beddington-DeAngelis functional response predator-prey model is considered. The conditions for the local stability and the existence of Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium of the system are derived. Some explicit formulae for determining the stability and the direction of the Hopf bifurcation periodic solutions bifurcating from Hopf bifurcations are obtained by using the nor...

In this paper we apply the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to study the van der Pol equation with a linear delayed feedback. The paper focuses on the calculation of periodic solutions and associated bifurcations, Hopf, double Hopf, Neimark-Sacker, etc. In particular we discuss the behavior of the systems in the neighborhoods of double Hopf points. We demonstrate the applicability of HAM to the a...

In this paper, a two-species Lotka–Volterra predator-prey model with two delays is considered. By analyzing the associated characteristic transcendental equation, the linear stability of the positive equilibrium is investigated and Hopf bifurcation is demonstrated. Some explicit formulae for determining the stability and direction of Hopf bifurcation periodic solutions bifurcating from Hopf bif...

This paper considers a hierarchy of mathematical models of excitable media in one spatial dimension, specifically the FitzHugh–Nagumo equation and several models of the dynamics of intracellular calcium. A common feature of the models is that they support solitary traveling pulse solutions which lie on a characteristic C-shaped curve of wave speed versus parameter. This C lies to the left of a ...