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Eighth Mississippi State - UAB Conference on Differential Equations & Computational Simulations
May 7-9, 2009
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS, USA

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Mississippi State University & University of Alabama - Birmingham

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Homoclinic orbit solutions of a one Dimensional Wilson-Cowan type model
by
Edward Krisner
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

We analyze a time independent integral equation defined on a spatially extended domain which arises in the modeling of neuronal networks. In this paper, the coupling function is oscillatory and the firing rate is a smooth "heaviside-like" function. We will derive an associated fourth order ODE and establish that any bounded solution of the ODE is also a solution of the integral equation. We will then apply shooting arguments to prove that the ODE has N-bump homoclinic orbit solutions for any even-valued N > 0. homoclinic orbit.

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Date received: October 5, 2008

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