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We study the dynamics of the excitable Fitz Hugh–Nagumo system under external noisy driving. Noise activates the system producing a sequence of pulses. The coherence of these noise-induced oscillations is shown to be maximal for a certain noise amplitude. This new effect of coherence resonance is explained by different noise dependencies of the activation and the excursion times. A simple one-d...

Somajyoti Majumder Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney Rose Street Building (J04) Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Steve Scheding Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney Rose Street Building (J04) Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Hugh Durrant-Whyte Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney Rose Street Building (J04) Sydney, NSW 2006 ...

In this paper we give Murnaghan-Nakayama type formulas for computing the irre-ducible characters of the Iwahori-Hecke algebras of types A n?1 , B n and D n. Our method is a generalization of a derivation of the Murnaghan-Nakayama formula for the irreducible characters of the symmetric group given by Curtis Greene Gr]. Greene's approach is to sum up the diagonal entries of the matrices of certai...

We study the dynamics of a lattice of coupled nonidentical Fitz Hugh-Nagumo system subject to independent external noise. It is shown that these stochastic oscillators can lead to global synchronization behavior without an external signal. With the increase of the noise intensity, the system exhibits coherence resonance behavior. Coupling can enhance greatly the noise-induced coherence in the s...

In this paper we give Murnaghan-Nakayama type formulas for computing the irreducible characters of the Iwahori-Hecke algebras of types An−1, Bn, and Dn. Our method is a generalization of a derivation of the Murnaghan-Nakayama formula for the irreducible characters of the symmetric group given by Curtis Greene. Greene’s approach is to sum up the diagonal entries of the matrices of certain cycle ...

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