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Recently there has been an increasing interest in studying dynamical processes on networks exhibiting higher-order structures, such as simplicial complexes, where the dynamics acts above and beyond dyadic interactions. Using simulations or…

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Laplacian dynamics on a signless graph characterize a class of linear interactions, where pairwise cooperative interactions between all agents lead to the convergence to a common state. On a structurally balanced signed graph, the agents…

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