1980 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic)
verfasst von : Arthur T. Winfree
Erschienen in: The Geometry of Biological Time
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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A phase singularity is a point at which phase is ambiguous and near which phase takes on all values. My purpose in this chapter is to give examples by somewhat idealized description of phase singularities observed in several experimental systems. In some cases, the phase singularity is at this writing only inferred and not yet demonstrated. Some cases of purely hypothetical and trivial nature are also thrown in to help clarify the principles that I take to be involved in the more interesting biological examples. Much is glossed over here that should disturb a thoughtful person acquainted with the physiology of any one of these systems. These details are dealt with in Chapter 10 and in the Bestiary (Chapters 11–23).