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Spiral Waves in Media with Complex Excitable Dynamics

Andrei Goryachev, Raymond Kapral

chao-dynarXiv:chao-dyn/9901024

Abstract

The structure of spiral waves is investigated in super-excitable reaction-diffusion systems where the local dynamics exhibits multi-looped phase space trajectories. It is shown that such systems support stable spiral waves with broken symmetry and complex temporal dynamics. The main structural features of such waves, synchronization defect lines, are demonstrated to be similar to those of spiral waves in systems with complex-oscillatory dynamics.

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