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Basins with tentacles

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems 2021-11-05 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Dynamical Systems

Abstract

To explore basin geometry in high-dimensional dynamical systems, we consider a ring of identical Kuramoto oscillators. Many attractors coexist in this system; each is a twisted periodic orbit characterized by a winding number qq, with basin size proportional to ekq2.e^{-kq^2}. We uncover the geometry behind this size distribution and find the basins are octopus-like, with nearly all their volume in the tentacles, not the head of the octopus (the ball-like region close to the attractor). We present a simple geometrical reason why basins with tentacles should be common in high-dimensional systems.

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@article{arxiv.2106.05709,
  title  = {Basins with tentacles},
  author = {Yuanzhao Zhang and Steven H. Strogatz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05709},
  year   = {2021}
}

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