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 ...

Using the methods of moving frames and exterior differential systems, we show that there exist Hopf hypersurfaces in complex hyperbolic space CH with any specified value of the Hopf principal curvature α less than or equal to the corresponding value for the horosphere. We give a construction for all such hypersurfaces in terms of Weierstrass-type data, and also obtain a classification of pseudo...

The Skyrme-Faddeev model is a modified sigma model in three-dimensional space, which has string-like topological solitons classified by the integer-valued Hopf charge. Numerical simulations are performed to compute soliton solutions for Hopf charges up to sixteen, with initial conditions provided by families of rational maps from the threesphere into the complex projective line. A large number ...

To understand joint effects of logistic growth in target cells and intracellular delay on viral dynamics in vivo, we carry out two-parameter bifurcation analysis of an in-host model that describes infections of many viruses including HIV-I, HBV and HTLV-I. The bifurcation parameters are the mitosis rate r of the target cells and an intracellular delay τ in the incidence of viral infection. We d...

We construct a Hopf algebra structure on the space of specified Feynman graphs of a quantum field theory. We introduce a convolution product and a semigroup of characters of this Hopf algebra with values in some suitable commutative algebra taking momenta into account. We then implement the renormalization described by A. Connes and D. Kreimer in [2] and the Birkhoff decomposition for two renor...

We study the Brusselator reaction-diffusion model under conditions where the Hopf mode is supercritical and the Turing band is subcritical. Oscillating Turing patterns arise in the system when bulk oscillations lose their stability to spatial perturbations. Spatially uniform external periodic forcing can generate oscillating Turing patterns when both the Turing and Hopf modes are subcritical in...

A sufficient integral criterion for a blow-up solution of the Hopf equations (the Euler equations with zero pressure) is found. This criterion shows that a certain positive integral quantity blows up in a finite time under specific initial conditions. Blow-up of this quantity means that solution of the Hopf equation in 3D can not be continued in the Sobolev space H2(R3) for infinite time.

In this paper, we analyze the structure possessed by the homotopy groups of a simplicial abelian Hopf algebra over the field F2. Specifically, we review the higher-order structure that the homotopy groups of a simplicial commutative algebra and simplicial cocommutative coalgebra possess. We then demonstrate how these structures interact under the added conditions present in a Hopf algebra. Intr...

In quantum groups coproducts of Lie-algebras are twisted in terms of generators of the corresponding universal enveloping algebra. If representations are considered, twists also serve as starproducts that accordingly quantize representation spaces. In physics, requirements turn out to be the other way around. Physics comes up with noncommutative spaces in terms of starproducts that miss a suiti...