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Supersymmetric methods in the traveling variable: inside neurons and at the brain scale. (English) Zbl 1151.92006

Licata, Ignazio (ed.) et al., Physics of emergence and organization. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific (ISBN 978-981-277-994-6/hbk). 253-265 (2008).
Summary: We apply the mathematical technique of factorization of differential operators to two different problems. First we review our results related to thee supersymmetry of the Montroll kinks moving onto the microtubule walls as well as mentioning the sine-Gordon model for the microtubule nonlinear excitations. Second, we find analytic expressions for a class of one-parameter solutions of a sort of diffusion equations of Bessel type that is obtained by supersymmetry from the homogeneous form of a simple damped wave equation derived in the works of P. A. Robinson and collaborators for the corticothalamic system. We also present a possible interpretation of the diffusion equation in the brain context.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1144.81005].

MSC:

92C05 Biophysics
92C20 Neural biology
81V99 Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems