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Higher-order interactions provide a nuanced understanding of the relational structure of complex systems beyond traditional pairwise interactions. However, higher-order network analyses also incur more cumbersome interpretations and greater…

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Network science has evolved into an indispensable platform for studying complex systems. But recent research has identified limits of classical networks, where links connect pairs of nodes, to comprehensively describe group interactions.…

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Dynamics of complex systems are often driven by interactions that extend beyond pairwise links, underscoring the need to establish a correspondence between interpretable system parameters and emergent phenomena in hypergraph-based networks.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-10 Dhrubajyoti Biswas , Arpan Banerjee

An incorporation of higher-order interactions is known to lead an abrupt first-order transition to synchronization in otherwise smooth second-order one for pair-wise coupled systems. Here, we show that adaptation in higher-order coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-02-24 Priyanka Rajwani , Ayushi Suman , Sarika Jalan

Collective behavior plays a key role in the function of a wide range of physical, biological, and neurological systems where empirical evidence has recently uncovered the prevalence of higher-order interactions, i.e., structures that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-14 Per Sebastian Skardal , Lluís Arola-Fernández , Dane Taylor , Alex Arenas

Real-world networks are often characterized by simultaneous interactions between multiple agents that adapt themselves due to feedback from the environment. In this article, we investigate the dynamics of an adaptive multilayer network of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-22 Richita Ghosh , Md Sayeed Anwar , Dibakar Ghosh , Jurgen Kurths , Manish Dev Shrimali

Recurrent Neural Network models have elucidated the interplay between structure and dynamics in biological neural networks, particularly the emergence of irregular and rhythmic activities in cortex. However, most studies have focused on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-04 Nimrod Sherf , Xaq Pitkow , Krešimir Josić , Kevin E. Bassler

The study of higher order interactions in the dynamics of Kuramoto oscillators has been a topic of intense recent research. Arguments based on dimensional reduction using the Ott-Antonsen ansatz show that such interactions usually…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-08 Ricardo Fariello , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Network interactions that are nonlinear in the state of more than two nodes - also known as higher-order interactions - can have a profound impact on the collective network dynamics. Here we develop a coupled cell hypernetwork formalism to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Manuela Aguiar , Christian Bick , Ana Dias

The organization of higher-order interactions plays a central role in shaping collective dynamics, yet a general structural principle governing contagion on hypergraphs remains lacking. Here we introduce a nesting coefficient that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-28 Hugo P. Maia , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Silvio C. Ferreira , Yamir Moreno

The higher-order interactions of complex systems, such as the brain are captured by their simplicial complex structure and have a significant effect on dynamics. However, the existing dynamical models defined on simplicial complexes make…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-02 Ana P. Millán , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

There has recently been an explosion of interest in how "higher-order" structures emerge in complex systems. This "emergent" organization has been found in a variety of natural and artificial systems, although at present the field lacks a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Thomas F. Varley , Joshua Bongard

Understanding the mechanisms that govern species coexistence and biodiversity represents a fundamental challenge in ecology. This study extends the classic rock-paper-scissors model by introducing a context-dependent higher-order…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Chunpeng Du , Haoshu Wang , Yikang Lu , Lijuan Qin , Junpyo Park

A deluge of new data on social, technological and biological networked systems suggests that a large number of interactions among system units are not limited to pairs, but rather involve a higher number of nodes. To properly encode such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

We study the effect of structured higher-order interactions on the collective behavior of coupled phase oscillators. By combining a hypergraph generative model with dimensionality reduction techniques, we obtain a reduced system of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-14 Sabina Adhikari , Juan G. Restrepo , Per Sebastian Skardal

Opinion dynamics is a central subject of computational social science, and various models have been developed to understand the evolution and formulation of opinions. Existing models mainly focus on opinion dynamics on graphs that only…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Wanyue Xu , Zhongzhi Zhang

Cooperative behaviors are deeply embedded in structured biological and social systems. Networks are often employed to portray pairwise interactions among individuals, where network nodes represent individuals and links indicate who…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 Jiachao Guo , Yao Meng , Aming Li

Higher-order networks with multiway interactions can exhibit collective dynamical phenomena that are absent in traditional pairwise network models. However, analyzing such dynamics becomes computationally prohibitive as their state space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Caesnan M. G. Leditto , Angus Southwell , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

Empirical complex systems can be characterized not only by pairwise interactions, but also by higher-order (group) interactions influencing collective phenomena, from metabolic reactions to epidemics. Nevertheless, higher-order networks'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-01 Maxime Lucas , Luca Gallo , Arsham Ghavasieh , Federico Battiston , Manlio De Domenico

We explore the consequences of introducing higher-order interactions in a geometric complex network of Morris-Lecar neurons. We focus on the regime where travelling synchronization waves are observed out of a first-neighbours based…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-20 A. Tlaie , I. Leyva , I. Sendiña