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Instability of mixing in the Kuramoto model: From bifurcations to patterns
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Instability of mixing in the Kuramoto model: From bifurcations to patterns

Hayato Chiba, Georgi S Medvedev and Matthew S Mizuhara
arXiv.org
31 Aug 2020
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2009.00103View
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Abstract

Physics - Chaotic Dynamics
We study patterns observed right after the loss of stability of mixing in the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators with random intrinsic frequencies on large graphs, which can also be random. We show that the emergent patterns are formed via two independent mechanisms determined by the shape of the frequency distribution and the limiting structure of the underlying graph sequence. Specifically, we identify two nested eigenvalue problems whose eigenvectors (unstable modes) determine the structure of the nascent patterns. The analysis is illustrated with the results of the numerical experiments with the Kuramoto model with unimodal and bimodal frequency distributions on certain graphs.

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