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Synchronization processes in complex networks

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems 2009-11-11 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Physics and Society

Abstract

We present an extended analysis, based on the dynamics towards synchronization of a system of coupled oscillators, of the hierarchy of communities in complex networks. In the synchronization process, different structures corresponding to well defined communities of nodes appear in a hierarchical way. The analysis also provides a useful connection between synchronization dynamics, complex networks topology and spectral graph analysis.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0610057,
  title  = {Synchronization processes in complex networks},
  author = {Alex Arenas and Albert Diaz-Guilera and Conrad J. Perez-Vicente},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0610057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Physica D "Special Issue on dynamics on complex networks"