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Pair of excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo elements: synchronization, multistability, and chaos
T Yanagita1, T Ichinomiya, Y Oyama
1Laboratory of Nonlinear Studies and Computation, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan. yanagita@nsc.es.hokudai.ac.jp
Abstract:
We analyze a pair of excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo elements, each of which is coupled repulsively. While the rest state for each element is globally stable for a phase-attractive coupling, various firing patterns, including cyclic and chaotic firing patterns, exist in an phase-repulsive coupling region. Although the rest state becomes linearly unstable via a Hopf bifurcation, periodic solutions associated to the firing patterns is not connected to the Hopf bifurcation. This means that the solution branch emanating from the Hopf bifurcation is subcritical and unstable for any coupling strength. Various types of cyclic firing patterns emerge suddenly through saddle-node bifurcations. The parameter region in which different periodic solutions coexist is also found.
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