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Travelling wave front solutions of a differential-difference equation arising in the modelling of myelinated nerve axon. (English) Zbl 0574.92012

Ordinary and partial differential equations, Proc. 8th Conf., Dundee/Scotl. 1984, Lect. Notes Math. 1151, 77-89 (1985).
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0564.00005.]
The model of myelinated nerve is an ordinary differential-difference equation with both advanced and retarded arguments. The Cauchy problem for this equation is considered and the existence and uniqueness of a travelling wave front solution is proved.

MSC:

92Cxx Physiological, cellular and medical topics
34K99 Functional-differential equations (including equations with delayed, advanced or state-dependent argument)
34A40 Differential inequalities involving functions of a single real variable

Citations:

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