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In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of biological and sociotechnical systems. The complex properties of real-world…

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A recent dynamic mean-field theory for sequence processing in fully connected neural networks of Hopfield-type (During, Coolen and Sherrington, 1998) is extended and analized here for a symmetrically diluted network with finite connectivity…

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Neural network dynamics emerge from the interaction of spiking cells. One way to formulate the problem is through a theoretical framework inspired by ideas coming from statistical physics, the so-called mean-field theory. In this document,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Grégory Dumont , Pierre Gabriel

The ability to achieve coordinated behavior -- engineered or emergent -- on networked systems has attracted widespread interest over several fields. This interest has led to remarkable advances in developing a theoretical understanding of…

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This paper is devoted to the study of mean-field limit for systems of indistinguables particles undergoing collision processes. As formulated by Kac \cite{Kac1956} this limit is based on the {\em chaos propagation}, and we (1) prove and…

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Epidemic spreading processes in the real world can interact with each other in a cooperative, competitive, or asymmetric way, requiring a description based on coevolution dynamics. Rich phenomena such as discontinuous outbreak transitions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Liming Pan , Dan Yang , Wei Wang , Shimin Cai , Tao Zhou , Ying-Cheng Lai

We offer a solution to a long-standing problem in the physics of networks, the creation of a plausible, solvable model of a network that displays clustering or transitivity -- the propensity for two neighbors of a network node also to be…

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Turbulence in growth of rain droplets and rain formation is studied under an approximating particle system representing aggregation at the level of individuals, depending on their volume and distance in space, of the Smoluchowski…

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Percolation theory has been largely used in the study of structural properties of complex networks such as the robustness, with remarkable results. Nevertheless, a purely topological description is not sufficient for a correct…

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In this paper, we study propagation of chaos for the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel model with a logarithmic cut-off by establishing a rigorous convergence analysis from a stochastic particle system to the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Li Chen , Shu Wang , Rong Yang

The study of the normalized sum of random variables and its asymptotic behaviour has been and continues to be a central chapter in probability and statistical mechanics. When those variables are independent the central limit theorem ensures…

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The mean-field limit of systems of rank-based interacting diffusions is known to be described by a nonlinear diffusion process. We obtain a similar description at the level of stationary distributions. Our proof is based on explicit…

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Multilayer networks are the underlying structures of multiple real-world systems where we have more than one type of interaction/relation between nodes: social, biological, computer, or communication, to name only a few. In many cases, they…

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Several systems can be modeled as sets of interconnected networks or networks with multiple types of connections, here generally called multilayer networks. Spreading processes such as information propagation among users of an online social…

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We investigate a general class of models for swarming/self-collective behaviour in domains with boundaries. The model is expressed as a stochastic system of interacting particles subject to both reflecting boundary condition and common…

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We study properties of multi-layered, interconnected networks from an ensemble perspective, i.e. we analyze ensembles of multi-layer networks that share similar aggregate characteristics. Using a diffusive process that evolves on a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-24 Nicolas Wider , Antonios Garas , Ingo Scholtes , Frank Schweitzer

The driven transport of plastic systems in various disordered backgrounds is studied within mean field theory. Plasticity is modeled using non-convex interparticle potentials that allow for phase slips. This theory most naturally describes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl Saunders , J. M. Schwarz , M. Cristina Marchetti , A. Alan Middleton

This article proposes a unified framework to study non-exchangeable mean-field particle systems with some general interaction mechanisms. The starting point is a fixed-point formulation of particle systems originally due to Tanaka that…

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