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Slow-Fast Dynamical Systems

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022)

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Slow–fast systems, i.e., nonlinear dynamic systems in which two or more variables are governed by very different time scales, appear in many branches of natural science. Examples are found in chemical systems (the most familiar of which is the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction), in models of the electrical activity of neuron and cardiac cells, population dynamics, plasma physics, lasers, and nonlinear optical systems, to name just a few. Mathematically, they are typically characterized by the existence of critical manifolds on which the slow dynamics takes place.

The geometry, stability and symmetry properties of these sets are at the origin of a wealth of dynamical phenomena including canard orbits, special trajectories following a repelling slow manifold for a considerable amount of time, and complex oscillatory patterns that can either be periodic or chaotic. This Special Issue is intended to collect contributions on slow–fast dynamics at mathematical, numerical, and experimental levels, with models and experiments ranging from biology to chemistry to physics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, canard explosions and excitability in higher dimensions, bursting and mixed-mode oscillations, symmetries in the context of singular perturbation problems, symmetry-breaking phenomena, model-reduction techniques, etc. Both research and review papers are welcomed.

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Keywords

  • singularly-perturbed systems and symmetry
  • canard explosions
  • invariant manifolds
  • mixed-mode oscillations and bursting
  • networks
  • slow-fast dynamics and symmetries of the limiting problems
  • slow-fast Hamiltonian systems and slow evolution to symmetry

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Slow Invariant Manifold of Laser with Feedback
by Jean-Marc Ginoux and Riccardo Meucci
Symmetry 2021, 13(10), 1898; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13101898 - 8 Oct 2021
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Previous studies have demonstrated, experimentally and theoretically, the existence of slow–fast evolutions, i.e., slow chaotic spiking sequences in the dynamics of a semiconductor laser with AC-coupled optoelectronic feedback. In this work, the so-called Flow Curvature Method was used, which provides the slow invariant [...] Read more.
Previous studies have demonstrated, experimentally and theoretically, the existence of slow–fast evolutions, i.e., slow chaotic spiking sequences in the dynamics of a semiconductor laser with AC-coupled optoelectronic feedback. In this work, the so-called Flow Curvature Method was used, which provides the slow invariant manifold analytical equation of such a laser model and also highlights its symmetries if any exist. This equation and its graphical representation in the phase space enable, on the one hand, discriminating the slow evolution of the trajectory curves from the fast one and, on the other hand, improving our understanding of this slow–fast regime. Full article
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Evolution to Mirror-Symmetry in Rotating Systems
by Ferdinand Verhulst
Symmetry 2021, 13(7), 1189; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13071189 - 1 Jul 2021
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A natural example of evolution can be described by a time-dependent two degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian. We choose the case where initially the Hamiltonian derives from a general cubic potential, the linearised system has frequencies 1 and ω>0. The time-dependence produces slow [...] Read more.
A natural example of evolution can be described by a time-dependent two degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian. We choose the case where initially the Hamiltonian derives from a general cubic potential, the linearised system has frequencies 1 and ω>0. The time-dependence produces slow evolution to discrete (mirror) symmetry in one of the degrees-of-freedom. This changes the dynamics drastically depending on the frequency ratio ω and the timescale of evolution. We analyse the cases ω=1,2,3 where the ratio’s 1,2 turn out to be the most interesting. In an initial phase we find 2 adiabatic invariants with changes near the end of evolution. A remarkable feature is the vanishing and emergence of normal modes, stability changes and strong changes of the velocity distribution in phase-space. The problem is inspired by the dynamics of axisymmetric, rotating galaxies that evolve slowly to mirror symmetry with respect to the galactic plane, the model formulation is quite general. Full article
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