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Synchronization in dynamical systems on directed weighted networks is often associated with stronger coupling and denser interactions. This paper shows that the opposite can also occur: weakening selected edges may increase the generalized…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xinyu Wu , Xizhi Liu , Chenyao Zhang , Tianping Chen , Wenlian Lu

Social networks inherently exhibit complex relationships that can be positive or negative, as well as directional. Understanding balance in these networks is crucial for unraveling social dynamics, yet traditional theories struggle to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-11 Bingjie Hao , Elijah Platnick , István A. Kovács

Networks in the real world do not exist as isolated entities, but they are often part of more complicated structures composed of many interconnected network layers. Recent studies have shown that such mutual dependence makes real networked…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-23 Filippo Radicchi

Understanding how transient dynamics unfold in response to localized inputs is central to predicting and controlling signal propagation in network systems, including neural processing, epidemic intervention, and power-grid resilience.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-23 Xiaoge Bao , Wei P. Dai , Jan Nagler , Wei Lin

Higher-order networks encode the many-body interactions existing in complex systems, such as the brain, protein complexes, and social interactions. Simplicial complexes are higher-order networks that allow a comprehensive investigation of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xue Gong , Desmond J. Higham , Konstantinos Zygalakis , Ginestra Bianconi

The population activity of random networks of excitatory and inhibitory leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons has been studied extensively. In particular, a state of asynchronous activity with low firing rates and low pairwise correlations…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-03 Volker Pernice , Benjamin Staude , Stefano Cardanobile , Stefan Rotter

Waveguides subject to spatiotemporal modulations are known to exhibit nonreciprocal vibration transmission, whereby interchanging the locations of the source and receiver change the end-to-end transmission characteristics. The scenario of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Studies of the dynamics of nonlinear recurrent neural networks often assume independent and identically distributed couplings, but large-scale connectomics data indicate that biological neural circuits exhibit markedly different…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-28 David G. Clark , Owen Marschall , Alexander van Meegen , Ashok Litwin-Kumar

Inferring network topology from dynamical observations is a fundamental problem pervading research on complex systems. Here, we present a simple, direct method to infer the structural connection topology of a network, given an observation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Srinivas Gorur Shandilya , Marc Timme

A deformation of the combinatorial Laplacian is proposed, consisting in a generalization of several existing Laplacians. As particular cases of this construction, the dilation Laplacians are shown to be useful tools for ranking in directed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-25 Michaël Fanuel , Johan A. K. Suykens

The dynamics of systems of interacting agents is determined by the structure of their coupling network. The knowledge of the latter is, therefore, highly desirable, for instance, to develop efficient control schemes, to accurately predict…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-10-13 Melvyn Tyloo , Robin Delabays , Philippe Jacquod

Network structure plays a critical role in functionality and performance of network systems. This paper examines structural adaptivity of diffusively coupled, directed multi-agent networks that are subject to diffusion performance. Inspired…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Mehran Mesbahi , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi

Pinning control of a complex network aims at forcing the states of all nodes to track an external signal by controlling a small number of nodes in the network. In this paper, an algebraic graph-theoretic condition is introduced to optimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Hui Liu , Xuanhong Xu , Jun-An Lu , Guanrong Chen , Zhigang Zeng

Networks are universally considered as complex structures of interactions of large multi-component systems. In order to determine the role that each node has inside a complex network, several centrality measures have been developed. Such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Malbor Asllani , Bruno Requiao da Cunha , Ernesto Estrada , James P. Gleeson

Many processes related to status, power, and influence within social networks have been modeled using forced linear diffusion models; examples include the highly successful Friedkin-Johnsen model of social influence, the status/power scores…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Alexander Murray-Watters , Cheng Wang , John R. Hipp , Cynthia Lakon , Carter T. Butts

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

Networks of excitable elements are widely used to model real-world biological and social systems. The dynamic range of an excitable network quantifies the range of stimulus intensities that can be robustly distinguished by the network…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-20 Renquan Zhang , Guoyi Quan , Jiannan Wang , Sen Pei

In a large variety of systems (biological, physical, social etc.), synchronization occurs when different oscillating objects tune their rhythm when they interact with each other. The different underlying network defining the connectivity…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-07 Juliette Courson , Thanos Manos , Mathias Quoy

Networks and graphs provide a simple but effective model to a vast set of systems which building blocks interact throughout pairwise interactions. Unfortunately, such models fail to describe all those systems which building blocks interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Mauro Faccin

Social networks play an important role in analyzing the impact of individual-level interactions on societal or economic outcomes. We model interactive decision making for a community of individuals with different traits, represented by a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-09 Pengyu Liu , Jie Jian