Sufficiently dense Kuramoto networks are globally synchronizing
Dynamical Systems
2021-08-11 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
Consider any network of identical Kuramoto oscillators in which each oscillator is coupled bidirectionally with unit strength to at least other oscillators. There is a critical value of the connectivity, , such that whenever , the system is guaranteed to converge to the all-in-phase synchronous state for almost all initial conditions, but when , there are networks with other stable states. The precise value of the critical connectivity remains unknown, but it has been conjectured to be . In 2020, Lu and Steinerberger proved that , and Yoneda, Tatsukawa, and Teramae proved in 2021 that . In this paper, we prove that 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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