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Sufficiently dense Kuramoto networks are globally synchronizing

Dynamical Systems 2021-08-11 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

Consider any network of nn identical Kuramoto oscillators in which each oscillator is coupled bidirectionally with unit strength to at least μ(n1)\mu (n-1) other oscillators. There is a critical value of the connectivity, μc\mu_c, such that whenever μ>μc\mu>\mu_c, the system is guaranteed to converge to the all-in-phase synchronous state for almost all initial conditions, but when μ<μc\mu<\mu_c, there are networks with other stable states. The precise value of the critical connectivity remains unknown, but it has been conjectured to be μc=0.75\mu_c=0.75. In 2020, Lu and Steinerberger proved that μc0.7889\mu_c\leq 0.7889, and Yoneda, Tatsukawa, and Teramae proved in 2021 that μc>0.6838\mu_c > 0.6838. In this paper, we prove that μc0.75\mu_c\leq 0.75 and explain why this is the best upper bound that one can obtain by a purely linear stability analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2105.11406,
  title  = {Sufficiently dense Kuramoto networks are globally synchronizing},
  author = {Martin Kassabov and Steven H. Strogatz and Alex Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11406},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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