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An interesting problem in synchronization is the study of coupled oscillators, wherein oscillators with different natural frequencies synchronize to a common frequency and equilibrium phase difference. In this paper, we investigate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Vishaal Krishnan , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Somashekhar S. Hiremath

Suppose we are given a system of coupled oscillators on an unknown graph along with the trajectory of the system during some period. Can we predict whether the system will eventually synchronize? Even with a known underlying graph…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Hardeep Bassi , Richard Yim , Rohith Kodukula , Joshua Vendrow , Cherlin Zhu , Hanbaek Lyu

This note concerns the evolution of multi-agent systems on networks over Riemannian manifolds. The motion of each agent is governed by the gradient descent flow of a disagreement function that is a sum of (squared) distances between pairs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Johan Markdahl

A paradigmatic framework to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization is provided by the Kuramoto model comprising a large collection of limit-cycle oscillators of distributed frequencies that are globally coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-08 Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta

We study the Kuramoto model (KM) of coupled phase oscillators on graphs approximating the Sierpinski gasket (SG). As the size of the graph tends to infinity, the limit points of the sequence of stable equilibria in the KM correspond to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

This paper establishes novel results regarding the global convergence properties of a large class of consensus protocols for multi-agent systems that evolve in continuous time on the n-dimensional unit sphere or n-sphere. For any connected,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

The Kuramoto model has provided deep insights into synchronization phenomena and remains an important paradigm to study the dynamics of coupled oscillators. Yet, despite its success, the asynchronous regime in the Kuramoto model has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Yagmur Kati , Jonas Ranft , Benjamin Lindner

In this work, we study the synchronization of coupled phase oscillators on the underlying topology of scale-free networks. In particular, we assume that each network's component is an oscillator and that each interacts with the others…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yamir Moreno , Amalio F. Pacheco

Many real-world systems of coupled agents exhibit directed interactions, meaning that the influence of an agent on another is not reciprocal. Furthermore, interactions usually do not have identical amplitude and/or sign. To describe…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-13 Robin Delabays , Philippe Jacquod , Florian Dörfler

We study bifurcations of the completely synchronized state in a continuum limit (CL) for the Kuramoto model (KM) of identical oscillators with two-mode interaction depending on two graphs. Here one of the graphs is uniform but may be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Kazuyuki Yagasaki

We provide an analysis of the classic Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear oscillators that goes beyond the existing results for all-to-all networks of identical oscillators. Our work is applicable to oscillator networks of arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ali Jadbabaie , Nader Motee , Mauricio Barahona

Synchronisation of coupled oscillators is a ubiquitous phenomenon, occurring in topics ranging from biology and physics, to social networks and technology. A fundamental and long-time goal in the study of synchronisation has been to find…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-07-25 Edward J. Hancock , Georg A. Gottwald

We consider the dynamics of $n$ points on a sphere in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d \geq 2$) which attract each other according to a function $\varphi$ of their inner products. When $\varphi$ is linear ($\varphi(t) = t$), the points converge to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Christopher Criscitiello , Quentin Rebjock , Andrew D. McRae , Nicolas Boumal

We discuss the aspects of synchronization on inhomogeneous star-like graphs with long rays in Kuramoto model framework. We assume the positive correlation between internal frequencies and degrees for all nodes which supports the abrupt…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-17 Artem Alexandrov , Pavel Arkhipov , Alexander Gorsky

We consider the problem of graph-matching on a network of 3D shapes with uncertainty quantification. We assume that the pairwise shape correspondences are efficiently represented as \emph{functional maps}, that match real-valued functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Faria Huq , Adrish Dey , Sahra Yusuf , Dena Bazazian , Tolga Birdal , Nina Miolane

The aim of this article is to investigate the convergence properties of a heterogeneous consensus model on Stiefel manifolds. We consider each agent, without interaction, moving according to the flow determined by the fundamental vector…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Dohyun Kim , Woojoo Shim

In this paper we address two questions about the synchronization of coupled oscillators in the Kuramoto model with all-to-all coupling. In the first part we use some classical results in convex geometry to prove bounds on the size of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Jared C. Bronski , Thomas E. Carty , Lee DeVille

In his classical work, Kuramoto analytically described the onset of synchronization in all-to-all coupled networks of phase oscillators with random intrinsic frequencies. Specifically, he identified a critical value of the coupling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Hayato Chiba , Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

We investigate the stability of the synchronization manifold in a ring and an open-ended chain of nearest neighbors coupled self-sustained systems, each self-sustained system consisting of multi-limit cycles van der Pol oscillators. Such…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-24 R. Yamapi , H. G. Enjieu Kadji , G. Filatrella

We propose a Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators on a time-varying graph, whose dynamics is dictated by a Markov process in the space of graphs. The simplest representative is considering a base graph and then the subgraph determined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Pablo Groisman , Ruojun Huang , Hernan Vivas