Single-spike solutions to the 1D shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem

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Autores principales: Iuorio, Annalisa, Kuehn, Christian
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author Iuorio, Annalisa
Kuehn, Christian
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Kuehn, Christian
contents A fundamental example of reaction-diffusion system exhibiting Turing type pattern formation is the Gierer-Meinhardt system, which reduces to the shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem in a suitable singular limit. Thanks to its applicability in a large range of biological applications, this singularly perturbed problem has been widely studied in the last few decades via rigorous, asymptotic, and numerical methods. However, standard matched asymptotics methods do not apply (Ni 1998, Wei 1998), and therefore analytical expressions for single spike solutions are generally lacking. By introducing an ansatz based on generalized hyperbolic functions, we determine exact radially symmetric solutions to the one-dimensional shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem for any $1 < p < \infty$, representing both inner and boundary spike solutions depending on the location of the peak. Our approach not only confirms numerical results existing in literature, but also provides guidance for tackling extensions of the shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem based on different boundary conditions (e.g. mixed) and/or $n$-dimensional domains.
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spellingShingle Single-spike solutions to the 1D shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem
Iuorio, Annalisa
Kuehn, Christian
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Analysis of PDEs
A fundamental example of reaction-diffusion system exhibiting Turing type pattern formation is the Gierer-Meinhardt system, which reduces to the shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem in a suitable singular limit. Thanks to its applicability in a large range of biological applications, this singularly perturbed problem has been widely studied in the last few decades via rigorous, asymptotic, and numerical methods. However, standard matched asymptotics methods do not apply (Ni 1998, Wei 1998), and therefore analytical expressions for single spike solutions are generally lacking. By introducing an ansatz based on generalized hyperbolic functions, we determine exact radially symmetric solutions to the one-dimensional shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem for any $1 < p < \infty$, representing both inner and boundary spike solutions depending on the location of the peak. Our approach not only confirms numerical results existing in literature, but also provides guidance for tackling extensions of the shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem based on different boundary conditions (e.g. mixed) and/or $n$-dimensional domains.
title Single-spike solutions to the 1D shadow Gierer-Meinhardt problem
topic Classical Analysis and ODEs
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04832