Excitable chaos in diffusively coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo equations
Abstract
A prototypic model of three coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators is shown to exhibit spatio-temporal hyperchaos. With increasing the number of coupled units the number of positive Lyapunov exponents increases. A system in two spatial dimensions shows two types of excitable spatio-temporal (hyper-)chaos depending on which variable is chosen for the coupling. Some implications for excitable cardiac tissue are discussed.
Keywords
FitzHugh-Nagumo equation; hyperchaos; spatio-temporal chaos
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Revista Mexicana de Física
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