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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

Synchronization is a fundamental dynamical state of interacting oscillators, observed in natural biological rhythms and in the brain. Global synchronization which occurs when non-linear or chaotic oscillators placed on the nodes of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Lorenzo Giambagli , Riccardo Muolo , Ginestra Bianconi

We study the synchronisation properties of the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators on a general network. Here we distinguish the ability of such a system to self-synchronise from the stability of this behaviour. While…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander C. Kalloniatis

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

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 hidden geometry of simplicial complexes can influence the collective dynamics of nodes in different ways depending on the simplex-based interactions of various orders and competition between local and global structural features. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samir Sahoo , Bosiljka Tadic , Malayaja Chutani , Neelima Gupte

Based on recent advances in fibration symmetry theory, we investigate how structural symmetries influence synchronization in systems with higher-order interactions (HOI). Using bipartite graph representations, we identify a node partition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Margherita Bertè , Tommaso Gili

Higher-order interaction networks are typically modeled using hypergraphs or simplicial complexes, where interactions explicitly involve more than two nodes. Here we demonstrate that effective higher-order dynamical constraints emerge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-22 Lluís Torres-Hugas , Jordi Duch , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

We investigate in depth the synchronization of coupled oscillators on top of complex networks with different degrees of heterogeneity within the context of the Kuramoto model. In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 034101 (2007)], we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-29 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alex Arenas

Hypergraphs and simplical complexes both capture the higher-order interactions of complex systems, ranging from higher-order collaboration networks to brain networks. One open problem in the field is what should drive the choice of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-28 Federica Baccini , Filippo Geraci , Ginestra Bianconi

We study the synchronization transition of Kuramoto oscillators in scale-free networks that are characterized by tunable local properties. Specifically, we perform a detailed finite size scaling analysis and inspect how the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno

The Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is often used to describe synchronization phenomena in nature. Some applications, e.g., quantum synchronization and rigid-body attitude synchronization, involve high-dimensional Kuramoto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

Synchronization is crucial for the correct functionality of many natural and man-made complex systems. In this work we characterize the formation of synchronization patterns in networks of Kuramoto oscillators. Specifically, we reveal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lorenzo Tiberi , Chiara Favaretto , Mario Innocenti , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

We analyze the synchronization dynamics of phase oscillators far from the synchronization manifold, including the onset of synchronization on scale-free networks with low and high clustering coefficients. We use normal coordinates and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Patrick McGraw , Michael Menzinger

The understanding of synchronization ranging from natural to social systems has driven the interests of scientists from different disciplines. Here, we have investigated the synchronization dynamics of the Kuramoto dynamics departing from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Huijie Yang

Network synchronization is an emerging phenomenon in complex networks. The spectrum of Laplacian matrix will be immensely helpful for getting the network dynamics information. Especially, network synchronizability is characterized by the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Y. N. Singh

Network Science provides a universal formalism for modelling and studying complex systems based on pairwise interactions between agents. However, many real networks in the social, biological or computer sciences involve interactions among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Daniel Hernández Serrano , Juan Hernández Serrano , Darío Sánchez Gómez

The dynamics of networks of neuronal cultures has been recently shown to be strongly dependent on the network geometry and in particular on their dimensionality. However, this phenomenon has been so far mostly unexplored from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-09 Ana P. Millán , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

Correlations between intrinsic dynamics and local topology have become a new trend in the study of synchronization in complex networks. In this paper, we investigate in this paradigm the influence of topology on dynamics of networks made up…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peng Ji , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

Simplicial complexes are generalizations of graphs that describe higher-order network interactions among nodes in the graph. Network dynamics described by graph Laplacian flows have been widely studied in network science and control theory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Tyler Summers