Expander graphs are globally synchronizing

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Main Authors: Abdalla, Pedro, Bandeira, Afonso S., Kassabov, Martin, Souza, Victor, Strogatz, Steven H., Townsend, Alex
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author Abdalla, Pedro
Bandeira, Afonso S.
Kassabov, Martin
Souza, Victor
Strogatz, Steven H.
Townsend, Alex
author_facet Abdalla, Pedro
Bandeira, Afonso S.
Kassabov, Martin
Souza, Victor
Strogatz, Steven H.
Townsend, Alex
contents The Kuramoto model is fundamental to the study of synchronization. It consists of a collection of oscillators with interactions given by a network, which we identify respectively with vertices and edges of a graph. In this paper, we show that a graph with sufficient expansion must be globally synchronizing, meaning that a homogeneous Kuramoto model of identical oscillators on such a graph will converge to the fully synchronized state with all the oscillators having the same phase, for every initial state up to a set of measure zero. In particular, we show that for any $\varepsilon > 0$ and $p \geq (1 + \varepsilon) (\log n) / n$, the homogeneous Kuramoto model on the Erdős-Rényi random graph $G(n, p)$ is globally synchronizing with probability tending to one as $n$ goes to infinity. This improves on a previous result of Kassabov, Strogatz, and Townsend and solves a conjecture of Ling, Xu, and Bandeira. We also show that the model is globally synchronizing on any $d$-regular Ramanujan graph, and on typical $d$-regular graphs, for large enough degree $d$.
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spellingShingle Expander graphs are globally synchronizing
Abdalla, Pedro
Bandeira, Afonso S.
Kassabov, Martin
Souza, Victor
Strogatz, Steven H.
Townsend, Alex
Combinatorics
Dynamical Systems
Optimization and Control
Probability
The Kuramoto model is fundamental to the study of synchronization. It consists of a collection of oscillators with interactions given by a network, which we identify respectively with vertices and edges of a graph. In this paper, we show that a graph with sufficient expansion must be globally synchronizing, meaning that a homogeneous Kuramoto model of identical oscillators on such a graph will converge to the fully synchronized state with all the oscillators having the same phase, for every initial state up to a set of measure zero. In particular, we show that for any $\varepsilon > 0$ and $p \geq (1 + \varepsilon) (\log n) / n$, the homogeneous Kuramoto model on the Erdős-Rényi random graph $G(n, p)$ is globally synchronizing with probability tending to one as $n$ goes to infinity. This improves on a previous result of Kassabov, Strogatz, and Townsend and solves a conjecture of Ling, Xu, and Bandeira. We also show that the model is globally synchronizing on any $d$-regular Ramanujan graph, and on typical $d$-regular graphs, for large enough degree $d$.
title Expander graphs are globally synchronizing
topic Combinatorics
Dynamical Systems
Optimization and Control
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12788