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Cooperation plays a fundamental role in societal and biological domains, and the population structure profoundly shapes the dynamics of evolution. Practically, individuals behave either altruistically or egoistically in multiple groups,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-04-05 Dini Wang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Gang Yan

Imitation is a basic updating mechanism for strategy evolution in structured populations, determining how individuals sample social information and translate it into behavioral changes. Higher-order networks, such as hypergraphs, generalize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Hao Fang

We consider the problem of reconstructing the state of a network of nonlinear dynamical systems in the presence of directed higher-order interactions. Grounded on analytical convergence results, we propose an algorithmic observer design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Roberto Rizzello , Davide Salzano , Stefano Boccaletti , Pietro De Lellis

The regulation of the cell state is a complex process involving several components. These complex dynamics can be modeled using Boolean networks, allowing us to explain the existence of different cell states and the transition between them.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-01-28 Elke K. Markert , Nils Baas , Arnold J. Levine , Alexei Vazquez

Higher-order interactions are increasingly recognized as a key component of ecological dynamics. However, we show that higher-order Lotka-Volterra dynamics can, in some scenarios, be accurately reproduced by effective pairwise models fitted…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-08 Violeta Calleja-Solanas , Santiago Lamata-Otín , Carlos Gómez-Ambrosi , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Sandro Meloni

Disorder is often seen as detrimental to collective dynamics, yet recent work has shown that heterogeneity can enhance network synchronization. However, its constructive role in stabilizing nontrivial cooperative patterns remains largely…

Finite-size systems of Kuramoto model display intricate dynamics, especially in the presence of multi-stability where both coherent and incoherent states coexist. We investigate such scenario in globally coupled populations of Kuramoto…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-05-28 Ayushi Suman , Sarika Jalan

Synchronization processes are ubiquitous despite the many connectivity patterns that complex systems can show. Usually, the emergence of synchrony is a macroscopic observable, however, the microscopic details of the system, as e.g. the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-08 Lluis Arola-Fernandez , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

Recent research has provided a wealth of evidence highlighting the pivotal role of high-order interdependencies in supporting the information-processing capabilities of distributed complex systems. These findings may suggest that high-order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-24 Patricio Orio , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas

Long-range interacting Hamiltonian systems are believed to relax generically towards non-equilibrium states called "quasi-stationary" because they evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium very slowly, on a time-scale diverging with particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-18 Michael Joyce , Jules Morand , Pascal Viot

In this paper we analyze the second-order Kuramoto model presenting a positive correlation between the heterogeneity of the connections and the natural frequencies in scale-free networks. We numerically show that discontinuous transitions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peng Ji , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

A complex system with many interacting individuals can be represented by a network consisting of nodes and links representing individuals and pairwise interactions, respectively. However, real-world systems grow with time and include many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-12 Soo Min Oh , Yongsun Lee , Byungnam Kahng

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. Although it is necessary for the functioning of many systems, too much synchronization can also be detrimental, e.g., (partially) synchronized brain patterns support high-level cognitive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Martin Moriamé , Maxime Lucas , Timoteo Carletti

We study noisy majority-rule dynamics on annealed hypergraphs to clarify how variability in group interaction sizes reshapes collective ordering. At each update, a group is sampled from a prescribed size distribution and either follows the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-03 Roni Muslim , Jong-Min Park , Jihye Kim , Rinto Anugraha NQZ

Coordination is ubiquitous in living systems. Existing theoretical models of coordination -- from bacteria to brains -- focus on either gross statistics in large-scale systems ($N\rightarrow\infty$) or detailed dynamics in small-scale…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mengsen Zhang , Christopher Beetle , J. A. Scott Kelso , Emmanuelle Tognoli

In harsh environments, organisms may self-organize into spatially patterned systems in various ways. So far, studies of ecosystem spatial self-organization have primarily focused on apparent orders reflected by regular patterns. However,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-15 Wensi Hu , Quan-Xing Liu , Bo Wang , Nuo Xu , Lijuan Cui , Chi Xu

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

Many networked systems are governed by non-pairwise interactions between nodes. The resulting higher-order interaction structure can then be encoded by means of a hypernetwork. In this paper we consider dynamical systems on hypernetworks by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Sören von der Gracht , Eddie Nijholt , Bob Rink

Cooperation is fundamental to human societies, and the interaction structure among individuals profoundly shapes its emergence and evolution. In real-world scenarios, cooperation prevails in multi-group (higher-order) populations, beyond…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-28 Dini Wang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Gang Yan