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In Section A of this chapter we associate a phase with each state of a limit cycle oscillator during dynamics in the absence of any perturbing influence. In Section B a stimulus smoothly alters the trajectories so that phase changes in peculiar ways, even discontinuously. This analysis is intended to apply to smooth dynamics. Accordingly, in Section C references are compiled to models which violate this precondition and thus do not fall within the purview of this chapter.
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Winfree, A.T. (1980). Attracting Cycles and Isochrons. In: The Geometry of Biological Time. Biomathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22492-2_7
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