Point condensation generated by a reaction-diffusion system in axially symmetric domains

In this paper we consider the stationary problem for a reaction-diffusion system of activator-inhibitor type, which models biological pattern formation, in an axially symmetric domain. It is shown that the system has multi-peak stationary solutions such that the activator is localized around some boundary points if the activator diffuses very slowly and the inhibitor diffuses rapidly enough.

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