Special Session 4: Control and Optimization

Geometric variational problems arising from singular limit of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations

yung s choi
university of connecticut
USA
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Abstract:
When parameters in the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations change in a certain coordinate fashion, solutions of this system develop sharp jumps as a singular limit. Through $\Gamma$-convergence, the original variational problems become some geometric variational problems. We focus on the latter problems in this talk. We report our recent work on existence, multiplicity and stability of disc-shaped solutions in ${\bf R}^N$. In addition the possibility of traveling wave for the geometric variational problems is discussed.