Figure 3. Properties of the uniform states (fixed points).
(a) Bifurcation diagram showing the B components of the fixed points ,
, and
as a function of the total actin concentration A. SN and WI mark the locations of the saddle node and Hopf bifurcations. (b) Dispersion relation of the linearized system around
, respectively representing the stability properties at three values of A: i (unstable to waves), WI (onset of wave instability), and ii (stable). The wave instability is identified by a positive real part and non-zero imaginary part of ω, whereas negative real parts of ω correspond to linearly stable uniform states.