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Global phase-locking in finite populations of phase-coupled oscillators

Dynamical Systems 2009-11-13 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We present new necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of fixed points in a finite system of coupled phase oscillators on a complete graph. We use these conditions to derive bounds on the critical coupling.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1558,
  title  = {Global phase-locking in finite populations of phase-coupled oscillators},
  author = {Mark Verwoerd and Oliver Mason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1558},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

31 pages; to appear in SIAM journal of dynamical systems (SIADS)