A new instability framework in 2-component reaction-diffusion systems

Abstract

This paper concerns pattern formation in 2-component reaction-diffusion systems with linear diffusion terms and a local interaction. We propose a new instability framework with 0-mode Hopf instability, $m$ and $m + 1$ mode Turing instabilities in 2-component reaction-diffusion systems. The normal form for the codimension 3 bifurcation is derived via the center manifold reduction, which is one of the main results in the present paper. We also show numerical results on bifurcation of some reaction-diffusion systems and on a chaotic behavior of the normal form.