title: General chemotactic model of oscillators.
abstract: We propose a general chemotactic model describing a system of interacting elements. Each element in this model exhibits internal dynamics, and there exists a nonlinear coupling between elements that depends on their internal states. From this model, we derive a simpler model describing the phases and positions of the chemotactic elements by means of center-manifold and phase-reduction methods. We find that, despite its simplicity, the model obtained through this reduction exhibits a rich variety of patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Fukui University 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan. dan@u-fukui.ac.jp
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tanaka