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Higher-order interactions that nonlinearly couple more than two nodes are important in many networked systems, and their effects on collective dynamics are increasingly being studied. Here we provide an overview of this rapidly growing…

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Recent studies uncovered important core/periphery network structures characterizing complex sets of cooperative and competitive interactions between network nodes, be they proteins, cells, species or humans. Better characterization of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-03 Peter Csermely , Andras London , Ling-Yun Wu , Brian Uzzi

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

Morphogenesis emerges from dynamic feedback among geometry, mechanics, and chemistry; however, disentangling these contributions in living systems remains challenging. Here, we focus on the interplay between geometry and mechanics by…

Many real-world complex systems are characterized by non-pairwise -- higher-order -- interactions among system's units, and can be effectively modeled as hypergraphs. Directed hypergraphs distinguish between source and target sets within…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-17 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Alberto Vendramini , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

In this work, we propose a comprehensive theoretical framework combining percolation theory with nonlinear dynamics in order to study hypergraphs with a time-varying giant component. We consider in particular hypergraphs with higher-order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-03 Hanlin Sun , Ginestra Bianconi

Directed cycles form the fundamental motifs in natural, social and artificial networks, yet their distinct computational roles remain under-explored, particularly in the context of higher-order structure and function. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-14 Hardik Rajpal , Paul Expert , Vaiva Vasiliauskaite

We develop a novel method based in the sparse random graph to account the interplay between geometric frustration and disorder in cluster magnetism. Our theory allows to introduce the cluster network connectivity as a controllable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Alexandre Silveira , R. Erichsen , S. G. Magalhaes

The most fundamental social interactions among humans occur face to face. Their features have been extensively studied in recent years, owing to the availability of high-resolution data on individuals' proximity. Mathematical models based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-10 Luca Gallo , Chiara Zappalà , Fariba Karimi , Federico Battiston

Neuronal networks can present activity described by power-law distributed avalanches presumed to be a signature of a critical state. Here we study a random-neighbor network of excitable cellular automata coupled by dynamical synapses. The…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-07-21 Ariadne de A. Costa , Mauro Copelli , Osame Kinouchi

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

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

Percolation theory dictates an intuitive picture depicting correlated regions in complex systems as densely connected clusters. While this picture might be adequate at small scales and apart from criticality, we show that highly correlated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-17 István A. Kovács , Róbert Juhász

Higher-order connectivity in complex systems described by simplexes of different orders provides a geometry for simplex-based dynamical variables and interactions. Simplicial complexes that constitute a functional geometry of the human…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-19 Miroslav Andjelkovic , Bosiljka Tadic , Roderick Melnik

The synaptic connectivity of cortical networks features an overrepresentation of certain wiring motifs compared to simple random-network models. This structure is shaped, in part, by synaptic plasticity that promotes or suppresses…

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Spatial self-organization emerges in distributed systems exhibiting local interactions when nonlinearities and the appropriate propagation of signals are at work. These kinds of phenomena can be modeled with different frameworks, typically…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-23 Adriano Bonforti , Salva Duran-Nebreda , Raul Montañez , Ricard Solé

Higher-order interactions underlie complex phenomena in systems such as biological and artificial neural networks, but their study is challenging due to the scarcity of tractable models. By leveraging a generalisation of the maximum entropy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-10 Miguel Aguilera , Pablo A. Morales , Fernando E. Rosas , Hideaki Shimazaki

The co-evolution of structure and dynamics, known as adaptivity, is a fundamental property in various systems and drives diverse emergent behaviors. However, the adaptivity in previous works is primarily stemmed from pairwise situations,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-22 Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Zhihao Han , Xin Wang , Shaoting Tang

Entrainment of randomly coupled oscillator networks by periodic external forcing applied to a subset of elements is numerically and analytically investigated. For a large class of interaction functions, we find that the entrainment window…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Hiroshi Kori , Alexander S. Mikhailov

Self-organizations of ordered patterns in far-from-equilibrium many-body systems host fundamental importance in many disciplines. Meanwhile, complex systems often feature hierarchical structures with distinct scales for different layers,…