ANALYTICAL CRITERIA FOR LOCAL ACTIVITY AND APPLICATIONS TO THE OREGONATOR CNN

This paper presents analytic criteria for local activity in one-port Cellular Nonlinear Network (CNN) cells [Chua, 1997, 1999], and gives the applications to the Oregonator CNN defined by the kinetic chemical reaction model of morphogenesis first introduced in [Field & Noyes, 1974]. Locally active domains, locally passive domains, and the edge of chaos are identified in the cell parameter space. Computer simulations of the dynamics of several Oregonator CNN's with specific selected cell parameters in the above-mentioned domains show genesis and the emergence of complexity. Furthermore, a novel phenomena is observed that "extremely high energy" is concentrated only on a few cells in the dynamic patterns of some Oregonator CNN's whose cell parameters are located in active domains; furthermore, relaxation oscillations and "transient oscillations" can exist if the cell parameters of the Oregonator CNN are located nearby or on the edge of chaos. This research illustrates once again the effectiveness of the local activity theory in choosing the system parameters for the emergence of complex patterns (static and dynamic) in a homogeneous lattice formed by coupled cells.