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Masayasu Mimura

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Diffusion, cross-diffusion and competitive interaction.

The cross-diffusion competition systems were introduced by Shigesada et al. [J. Theor. Biol. 79, 83-99 (1979)] to describe the population pressure by other species. In this paper, introducing the densities of the active individuals and the less active ones, we show that the cross-diffusion competition system can be approximated by the reaction-diffusion system which only includes the linear diffusion. The linearized stability around the constant equilibrium solution is also studied, which implies that the cross-diffusion induced instability can be regarded as Turing's instability of the corresponding reaction-diffusion system.

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Nonannihilation dynamics in an exothermic reaction-diffusion system with mono-stable excitability.

We consider a 2-component excitable and diffusive system which describes a simple exothermic reaction process. In some parameter regime, there are two characteristics of travelling pulses of the system: (i) travelling pulses are planarly unstable; (ii) when two travelling pulses approach closely, they do not annihilate each other and repel like elastic objects. Under this situation, it is shown that ring patterns break down into complex patterns in 2-dimensions, which are totally different from those arising in the well-known excitable and diffusive system with the FitzHugh-Nagumo nonlinearity. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.

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