Cycle repelling

Figure 16 (a) Spectrum obtained from the average of 20 cycles (repeller pulses) after a... 

Sensory rhodopsin II (SRII, also called phobo-rhodopsin) is specialized for repellant phototaxis.5913 Blue light converts SRII487 in < 1 ms to UV-absorbing SRII360. It decays in 100 ms to SRn5/W) which reverts to the initial SRII487 in 0.5 s. The cycle is accompanied by swimming reversals that result in a repellent... 

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The best hydrophobicity is obtained when the screening of the residual silanols is optimal. For the present series, it appears that sample S8 develops the strongest repellent power as no evolution was observed for successive cycles. As a consequence, this type of modification was used to modified MTS samples. 

This means that all members of an n cycle share exactly the same stability property, and it makes sense to call the whole orbit attracting, neutral, or repelling, respectively, depending on whether one of its elements has this property. 

Fig. 2.3 shows a qualitative sketch of Fig. 1.8. Solid lines indicate attracting fixed points and cycles, dashed lines indicate repelling fixed points and cycles.

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If the inequality is reversed then the rest point E. is unstable - a repeller. The Poincar -Bendixson theorem then allows one to conclude that there exists a limit cycle. Unfortunately, there may (theoretically) be several limit cycles. If all limit cycles are hyperbolic then there is at least one asymptotically stable one, for if there are multiple limit cycles the innermost one must be asymptotically stable. Moreover, since all trajectories eventually lie in a compact set, there are only a finite number of limit cycles and the outermost one must be asymptotically stable. Since the system is (real) analytic, one could also appeal to results for such systems. For example, Erie, Mayer, and Plesser [EMP] and Zhu and Smith [ZSJ show that if E is unstable then there exists at least one limit cycle that is asymptotically stable. Stability of limit cycles will be discussed in the next section. We make a brief digression to outline the principal parts of this theory, and then return to the food-chain problem. 

Could it be that all trajectories are repelled out to infinity No we can prove that all trajectories eventually enter and remain in a certain large ellipsoid (Exercise 9.2.2). Could there be some stable limit cycles that we re unaware of Possibly, but Lorenz gave a persuasive argument that for r slightly greater than, any limit cycles would have to be unstable (see Section 9.4). 

The second important bifurcation that is connected with a stability change in a stationary state is the /fop/bifurcation. At a Hopf bifurcation, the real parts of two conjugate complex eigenvalues of J vanish, and as Hopf s theorem ensures, a periodic orbit or limit cycle is bom. A limit cycle is a closed loop in phase space toward which neighboring points (of the kinetic representation) are attracted or from which they are repelled. If all neighboring points are attracted to the limit cycle, it is stable otherwise it is unstable (see Ref. 57). The periodic orbit emerging from a Hopf bifurcation can be stable or unstable and the existence of a Hopf bifurcation cannot be deduced from the mere fact that a system exhibits oscillatory behavior. Still, in a system with a sufficient number of parameters, the presence or absence of a Hopf bifurcation is indicative of the presence or absence of stable oscillations. 

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As mentioned in a previous section, a limit cycle can, at times, undergo a Hopf bifurcation. This would be revealed in a stability analysis of the cross-sectional point in the Poincare section of the limit cycle. A Hopf bifurcation would correspond to an associated pair of eigenvalues whose real part passes from negative to positive while all other eigenvalues remain negative. In physical terms, a Hopf bifurcation means a second frequency becomes available to the system, and this is reflected in the disappearance of the limit cycle attraaor and the appearance of a torus attractor. (The limit cycle still exists actually, but the bifurcation renders it unstable so that all trajectories are repelled from it.)... 

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