Dynamical properties of a diffusion-coupled system of differential equations with an additional internal coupling

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a system of differential equations with the diffusion interaction and an additional internal coupling. Such systems are interesting because a slight variation in the coefficient at the additional coupling allows obtaining intricate scenarios of phase rearrangements. For the system under study, we find the critical dependence of the parameters such that zero equilibrium loses stability as two spatially inhomogeneous states appear in one case and a cycle in another case. With the parameter values close to the critical ones, asymptotic formulas are obtained for the regimes that branch off from the zero solution.