The general topic is excitable systems: Think of the spread of rumor, flow of information in the brain or electrical activation of cardiac tissue. These can all be modeled on a network, and by studying excitation patterns in the network, we can learn more about the behavior of news in social networks, brain cells and cardiac activation.

“Scroll Waves and Filaments in Excitable Media of Higher Spatial Dimension” is the result of research during Marie’s master’s thesis.

The published version can be consulted on the Physical Review Letters website:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.208401

The paper is also available on arXiv:
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.14861

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