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The extension of the master stability function (MSF) to analyze stability of generalized synchronization for coupled nearly identical oscillators is discussed. The nearly identical nature of the coupled oscillators comes from some parameter…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Suman Acharyya , R. E. Amritkar

Rigorous conditions for cluster synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators are presented. The method of averaging plays an important role in stability analysis, but the standard Lyapunov's second method is not applicable due to the lack of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Rui Kato , Hideaki Ishii

In this study, we present a general framework for comparing two dynamical processes that describe the synchronization of oscillators coupled through networks of the same size. We introduce a measure of dissimilarity defined in terms of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-03 Alejandro P. Riascos

Systems that synchronize in nature are intrinsically different from one another, with possibly large differences from system to system. While a vast part of the literature has investigated the emergence of network synchronization for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Amirhossein Nazerian , Shirin Panahi , Francesco Sorrentino

The Kuramoto model is the paradigmatic model to study synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. In its classical formulation, the oscillators move on the unit circle, each characterized by a scalar phase and a natural frequency, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Anna Gallo , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Complex networks often have a modular structure, where a number of tightly- connected groups of nodes (modules) have relatively few interconnections. Modularity had been shown to have an important effect on the evolution and stability of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-21 Saray Shai , Dror Y. Kenett , Yoed N. Kenett , Miriam Faust , Simon Dobson , Shlomo Havlin

In this paper we study synchronized motions in complex networks in which there are distinct groups of nodes where the dynamical systems on each node within a group are the same but are different for nodes in different groups. Both…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Francesco Sorrentino , Edward Ott

This paper studies stability properties of multi-cluster formations in Kuramoto networks with adaptive coupling. Sufficient conditions for the local asymptotic stability of the corresponding synchronization invariant toroidal manifold are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Petro Feketa , Alexander Schaum , Thomas Meurer

The stability analysis of synchronization in time-varying higher-order networked structures (simplicial complexes) is one of the challenging problem due to the presence of time-varying group interactions. In this context, most of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-11 Md Sayeed Anwar , Dibakar Ghosh

The problem of synchronization in networks of neural mass model populations with discrete couplings is considered. The considered network is hybrid one, therefore Mikheev approach is applied to transform it to the network with time-varying…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-04 Sergei Plotnikov

A small-world network (SW) of similar phase oscillators, interacting according to the Kuramoto model is studied numerically. It is shown that deterministic Kuramoto dynamics on the SW networks has various stable stationary states. This can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-11 Reihaneh Kouhi Esfahani , Farhad Shahbazi , Keivan Aghababaei Samani

Despite growing interest in synchronization dynamics over "higher-order" network models, optimization theory for such systems is limited. Here, we study a family of Kuramoto models inspired by algebraic topology in which oscillators are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-12 Cameron Purple , Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor

The Kuramoto model has shaped our understanding of synchronization in complex systems, yet its phase-only formulation neglects amplitude dynamics that are intrinsic to many oscillatory networks. In this work, we revisit Kuramoto-type…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Kuan-Wei Chen , Ting-Yang Hsiao

We study cluster synchronization in networks and show that the stability of all possible cluster synchronization patterns depends on a small set of Lyapunov exponents. Our approach can be applied to clusters corresponding to both orbital…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-26 Abu Bakar Siddique , Louis Pecora , Joe Hart , Francesco Sorrentino

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed across natural and artificial networked systems. It often manifests itself by clusters of units exhibiting coincident dynamics. These clusters are a direct consequence of the organization…

The transient stability of power systems and synchronization of non-uniform Kuramoto oscillators are closely related problems. In this paper, we develop a novel regional stability analysis framework based on the proposed region-parametrized…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Lijun Zhu , David J. Hill

We consider complex clustered networks with a gradient structure, where sizes of the clusters are distributed unevenly. Such networks describe more closely actual networks in biophysical systems and in technological applications than…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Xingang Wang , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Choy Heng Lai

Future communication networks are expected to feature autonomic (or self-organizing) mechanisms to ease deployment (self-configuration), tune parameters automatically (self-optimization) and repair the network (self-healing).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Richard Combes , Zwi Altman , Eitan Altman

Globally coupled ensembles of phase oscillators serve as useful tools for modeling synchronization and collective behavior in a variety of applications. As interest in the effects of simplicial interactions (i.e., non-additive, higher-order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-01-13 Can Xu , Per Sebastian Skardal

It has been hypothesized that some form of "modular" structure in artificial neural networks should be useful for learning, compositionality, and generalization. However, defining and quantifying modularity remains an open problem. We cast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Richard D. Lange , David S. Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording