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Hopf bifurcations on invariant manifolds of a modified Fitzhugh–Nagumo model

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The dynamical features of a modified Fitzhugh–Nagumo (FHN) nerve model are addressed. The model considered accounts for a relaxation time, induced by diffusion and finite propagation velocities, resulting in a hyperbolic system. Bifurcation analysis of the local kinetic system with the relaxation constant as the principal bifurcation parameter reveals a threshold of the relaxation constant beyond which a supercritical Hopf bifurcation occurs. It is shown that the frequency of the ensuing cycles depends on the relaxation time. The existence of Hopf bifurcations on invariant center manifolds is established using the projection method. Analytical formulas for the critical value of the relaxation constant and the first Lyapunov coefficient are derived; results are confirmed via numerical simulations. The addition of external current, at small values of the relaxation constant, produces excitable behavior consistent with the classical FHN model such as periodic firing, bistability, bursting and canard explosions. At higher values of this constant, chaotic motion and other new dynamical objects such as period-two, -three and -four orbits are observed numerically.

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The work by CBT is supported by the Botswana International University of Science and Technology under the Grant DVC/RDI/2/1/16I (25). CBT thanks the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California Santa Barbara (USA), where this work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958, NIH Grant No. R25GM067110, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant No. 2919.01.

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  1. Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I, P.O. Box 812, Yaounde, Cameroon

    Forwah Amstrong Tah

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Private Bag 16, Palapye, Botswana

    Conrad Bertrand Tabi & Timoléon Crépin Kofané

  3. Laboratory of Mechanics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I, P.O. Box 812, Yaounde, Cameroon

    Timoléon Crépin Kofané

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Tah, F.A., Tabi, C.B. & Kofané, T.C. Hopf bifurcations on invariant manifolds of a modified Fitzhugh–Nagumo model. Nonlinear Dyn 102, 311–327 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-020-05976-x

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