Network dynamics with higher-order interactions: coupled cell hypernetworks for identical cells and synchrony

Manuela Aguiar, Christian Bick*, Ana Dias

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Abstract

Network interactions that are nonlinear in the state of more than two nodes—also known as higher-order interactions—can have a profound impact on the collective network dynamics. Here we develop a coupled cell hypernetwork formalism to elucidate the existence and stability of (cluster) synchronization patterns in network dynamical systems with higher-order interactions. More specifically, we define robust synchrony subspace for coupled cell hypernetworks whose coupling structure is determined by an underlying hypergraph and describe those spaces for general such hypernetworks. Since a hypergraph can be equivalently represented as a bipartite graph between its nodes and hyperedges, we relate the synchrony subspaces of a hypernetwork to balanced colourings of the corresponding incidence digraph.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4641-4673
Number of pages33
JournalNonlinearity
Volume36
Issue number9
Early online date24 Jul 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
M A and A D were partially supported by CMUP, member of LASI, which is financed by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects with reference UIDB/00144/2020 and UIDP/00144/2020. C B acknowledges support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Grant EP/T013613/1.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IOP Publishing Ltd & London Mathematical Society

Funding

M A and A D were partially supported by CMUP, member of LASI, which is financed by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects with reference UIDB/00144/2020 and UIDP/00144/2020. C B acknowledges support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Grant EP/T013613/1.

Keywords

  • 34C15
  • 34D06
  • 37C99
  • 37Nxx
  • coupled cell networks
  • higher-order interactions
  • hypergraphs
  • network dynamical systems
  • synchronization

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