ON TURING-HOPF INSTABILITIES IN REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS

We examine the appearance of Turing instabilities of spatially homogeneous periodic solutions in reaction-diffusion equations when such periodic solutions are consequence of Hopf bifurcations. First, we asymptotically develop limit cycle solutions associated to the appearance of Hopf bifurcations in reaction systems. Particularly, we will show conditions to the appearance of multiple limit cycles after Hopf bifurcation. Then, we propose expansions to normal modes associated with Turing instabilities from spatially homogeneous periodic solutions associated to limit cycles which appear as a consequence of a Hopf bifurcation. Finally, we discuss examples of reaction-diffusion systems arising in biology and chemistry in which can be observed spatial and time-periodic patterning.