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Published on: May 19, 2014
Complex dynamics of a spiral tip in the presence of an extrinsic local modulation
Hwang1, Gyu Choe W, Lee
1National Creative Research Initiative Center for Neurodynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea.
Abstract:
With a generic model excitable system, we have investigated the spatio-temporal dynamics of a spiral tip in the presence of an extrinsic localized periodic modulation. The tip of a modulated spiral does exhibit a variety of different trajectories depending on the strength and the frequency of the modulation. Its motion can be quasiperiodic on a 2-torus, quasiperiodic or mode locked on a 3-torus, or fully chaotic. Various bifurcations, including hard Hopf bifurcations and saddle-node bifurcations at strong resonances and period-doubling bifurcations of a mode-locked 3-torus, are revealed. In particular, the phenomenon of the period-doubling cascade of a resonant spiral tip trajectory is reported.
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