Turing threshold of a basally forced quadratic activator-inhibitor model
ID: turing-threshold-of-a-basally-forced-quadratic-activator-inhibitor-model
Add diffusivities to the basally forced quadratic activator-inhibitor model. A Fourier mode with has matrix and determinant . When , its trace is negative for every . A positive-growth mode therefore occurs precisely when for some positive . The parabola has a positive minimizer only if , and its minimum is negative exactly when . Thus the ordinary Turing instability requires , and . At onset, and the critical wavelength is . A bounded spatial domain further requires an allowed mode inside the unstable band.
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