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We investigate spatially inhomogeneous versions of the stochastic Lotka-Volterra model for predator-prey competition and coexistence by means of Monte Carlo simulations on a two-dimensional lattice with periodic boundary conditions. To…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Bassel Heiba , Sheng Chen , Uwe C. Täuber

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,…

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Disordered systems theory provides powerful tools to analyze the generic behaviors of highdimensional systems, such as species-rich ecological communities or neural networks. By assuming randomness in their interactions, universality…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-20 Juan Giral Martínez

Stability is a desirable property of complex ecosystems. If a community of interacting species is at a stable equilibrium point then it is able to withstand small perturbations to component species' abundances without suffering adverse…

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The study of ecological systems is gaining momentum in modern scientific research, driven by an abundance of empirical data and advancements in bioengineering techniques. However, a full understanding of their dynamical and thermodynamical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Ada Altieri

The inclusion of inertia in the Kuramoto model has been long reported to change the nature of phase transition, providing a fertile ground to model the dynamical behaviors of interacting units. More recently, higher-order interactions have…

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Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once; for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Austin R. Benson , Rediet Abebe , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Jon Kleinberg

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…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-25 István Z. Kiss , Iacopo Iacopini , Péter L. Simon , Nicos Georgiou

Understanding the stability of complex communities is a central focus in ecology, many important theoretical advancements have been made to identify drivers of ecological stability. However, previous results often rely on the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-04 Shuaiying Wang , Yuguang Yang , Aming Li

We study the collective behavior of nonequilibrium systems subject to an external field with a dynamics characterized by the existence of non-interacting states. Aiming at exploring the generality of the results, we consider two types of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-12 J. C. Gonzalez-Avella , M. G. Cosenza , V. M. Eguiluz , M. San Miguel

The noise-induced pattern formation in a population dynamical model of three interacting species in the coexistence regime is investigated. A coupled map lattice of Lotka-Volterra equations in the presence of multiplicative noise is used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fiasconaro , D. Valenti , B. Spagnolo

We study the effects of phase-frustrated, higher-order interactions in a system of coupled phase oscillators with two communities. We use dimensionality reduction techniques to derive a low-dimensional system of ODEs to describe the…

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Ecological communities with many species can be classified into dynamical phases. In systems with all-to-all interactions, a phase where a fixed point is always reached and a dynamically-fluctuating phase have been found. The dynamics when…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-04 Stav Marcus , Ari M Turner , Guy Bunin

We investigate a model of high-dimensional dynamical variables with all-to-all interactions that are random and non-reciprocal. We characterize its phase diagram and show that the model can exhibit chaotic dynamics. We show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-15 Samantha J. Fournier , Alessandro Pacco , Valentina Ros , Pierfrancesco Urbani

Complex systems made of interacting elements are commonly abstracted as networks, in which nodes are associated with dynamic state variables, whose evolution is driven by interactions mediated by the edges. Markov processes have been the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-30 Vsevolod Salnikov , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte

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

Tipping points are critical thresholds of parameters where tiny perturbations can lead to abrupt and large qualitative changes in the systems. Many real-world systems that exhibit tipping behavior can be represented as networks of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-10 Richita Ghosh , Manish Dev Shrimali

Many real-world complex systems are characterized by interactions in groups that change in time. Current temporal network approaches, however, are unable to describe group dynamics, as they are based on pairwise interactions only. Here, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-17 Luca Gallo , Lucas Lacasa , Vito Latora , Federico Battiston

Higher-order interactions have recently emerged as a promising framework for describing new dynamical phenomena in heterogeneous contagion processes. However, a fundamental open question is how to understand their contribution from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Sandro Meloni , Andrea Gabrielli , Pablo Villegas

We live and cooperate in networks. However, links in networks only allow for pairwise interactions, thus making the framework suitable for dyadic games, but not for games that are played in groups of more than two players. Here, we study…