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We prove a sufficient condition for synchronization for coupled one-dimensional maps and estimate the size of the window of parameters where synchronization takes place. It is shown that coupled systems on graphs with positive eigenvalues…

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Complex time-varying networks are prominent models for a wide variety of spatiotemporal phenomena. The functioning of networks depends crucially on their connectivity, yet reliable techniques for learning communities in time-evolving…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Gary Froyland , Manu Kalia , Péter Koltai

We propose Local Dirac Synchronization which uses the Dirac operator to capture the dynamics of coupled nodes and link signals on an arbitrary network. In Local Dirac Synchronization, the harmonic modes of the dynamics oscillate freely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-29 Lucille Calmon , Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Ginestra Bianconi

To describe the flow of a miscible quantity on a network, we introduce the graph wave equation where the standard continuous Laplacian is replaced by the graph Laplacian. This is a natural description of an array of inductances and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-10-25 Jean-Guy Caputo , Arnaud Knippel , Elie Simo

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a fascinating topic in various scientific disciplines. A coupled oscillator network is characterized by a population of heterogeneous oscillators and a graph describing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Florian Dörfler , Michael Chertkov , Francesco Bullo

Large-scale integration of distributed energy resources has led to a rapid increase in the number of controllable devices and a significant change in system dynamics. This has necessitating the shift towards more distributed and scalable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Gerald Ogbonna , C. Lindsay Anderson

Traditionally, interaction systems have been described as networks, where links encode information on the pairwise influences among the nodes. Yet, in many systems, interactions take place in larger groups. Recent work has shown that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-30 Maxime Lucas , Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston

To find interesting structure in networks, community detection algorithms have to take into account not only the network topology, but also dynamics of interactions between nodes. We investigate this claim using the paradigm of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Simplicial complexes are increasingly used to study complex system structure and dynamics including diffusion, synchronization and epidemic spreading. The spectral dimension of the graph Laplacian is known to determine the diffusion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-19 Ginestra Bianconi , Sergey N. Dorogovtsev

Through an eigenanalysis of small perturbations, as typically done in small-signal stability studies, we intend to discover the underlying reasons that make those perturbations propagate in some way or another in the grid. To this end, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-05 Luiscarlos A. Torres-Sánchez , Giuseppe T. Freitas de Abreu , Stefan Kettemann

Because of the significant increase in size and complexity of the networks, the distributed computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of graph matrices has become very challenging and yet it remains as important as before. In this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Philippe Jacquet , Jithin Sreedharan

We present a method to infer network connectivity from collective dynamics in networks of synchronizing phase oscillators. We study the long-term stationary response to temporally constant driving. For a given driving condition, measuring…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Marc Timme

We investigate the existence of an optimal interplay between the natural frequencies of a group chaotic oscillators and the topological properties of the network they are embedded in. We identify the conditions for achieving phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-01-13 Per Sebastian Skardal , Ricardo Sevilla-Escoboza , Victor Vera-Ávila , Javier Martín Buldú

Complex systems in the real world can be modeled as a network of connected components. The human brain, as a network of neurons among which the interactions cause perception, is a complex network. Synchronization is a dynamical phenomenon…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Arefeh Mazarei , Mohammad Amirian Matlob , Gholamhossein Riazi , Yousef Jamali

In neurosciences, the brain processes information via the firing patterns of connected neurons operating across a spectrum of frequencies. To better understand the effects of these frequencies in the neuron dynamics, we have simulated a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-21 Gabriel Marghoti , Thiago L. Prado , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán , Sergio R. Lopes

By considering the eigenratio of the Laplacian of the connection graph as synchronizability measure, we propose a procedure for weighting dynamical networks to enhance theirsynchronizability. The method is based on node and edge betweenness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-31 Mahdi Jalili , Ali Ajdari Rad , Martin Hasler

Spectral analysis has long been recognized as a fundamental tool for studying the existence, uniqueness, and qualitative behavior of solutions to semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations, as well as their long-time dynamics. In modern…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Cong-Bang Trang , Hoang-Hung Vo

We study the evolution of heterogeneous networks of oscillators subject to a state-dependent interconnection rule. We find that heterogeneity in the node dynamics is key in organizing the architecture of the functional emerging networks. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-07-27 Francesco Scafuti , Takaaki Aoki , Mario di Bernardo

We study the dynamics of networks with coupling delay, from which the connectivity changes over time. The synchronization properties are shown to depend on the interplay of three time scales: the internal time scale of the dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Otti D'Huys , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Manuel Jiménez , Elka Korutcheva , Wolfgang Kinzel

In this paper, the investigation is first motivated by showing two examples of simple regular symmetrical graphs, which have the same structural parameters, such as average distance, degree distribution and node betweenness centrality, but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-21 Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen , Lin Huang