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Synchrony in networks of coupled non-smooth dynamical systems: Extending the master stability function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2016

STEPHEN COOMBES  and
RÜDIGER THUL
STEPHEN COOMBES
Affiliation:
Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK email: stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk; ruediger.thul@nottingham.ac.uk
RÜDIGER THUL
Affiliation:
Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK email: stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk; ruediger.thul@nottingham.ac.uk
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The master stability function is a powerful tool for determining synchrony in high-dimensional networks of coupled limit cycle oscillators. In part, this approach relies on the analysis of a low-dimensional variational equation around a periodic orbit. For smooth dynamical systems, this orbit is not generically available in closed form. However, many models in physics, engineering and biology admit to non-smooth piece-wise linear caricatures, for which it is possible to construct periodic orbits without recourse to numerical evolution of trajectories. A classic example is the McKean model of an excitable system that has been extensively studied in the mathematical neuroscience community. Understandably, the master stability function cannot be immediately applied to networks of such non-smooth elements. Here, we show how to extend the master stability function to non-smooth planar piece-wise linear systems, and in the process demonstrate that considerable insight into network dynamics can be obtained. In illustration, we highlight an inverse period-doubling route to synchrony, under variation in coupling strength, in globally linearly coupled networks for which the node dynamics is poised near a homoclinic bifurcation. Moreover, for a star graph, we establish a mechanism for achieving so-called remote synchronisation (where the hub oscillator does not synchronise with the rest of the network), even when all the oscillators are identical. We contrast this with node dynamics close to a non-smooth Andronov–Hopf bifurcation and also a saddle node bifurcation of limit cycles, for which no such bifurcation of synchrony occurs.

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General applied mathematicsSynchronisationNon-smooth equationsComplex networksNeural networks
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European Journal of Applied Mathematics , Volume 27 , Special Issue 6: Network Analysis and Modelling , December 2016 , pp. 904 - 922
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