Non-reciprocal interactions and high-dimensional chaos: comparing dynamics and statistics of equilibria in a solvable class of models

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Main Authors: Fournier, Samantha J., Pacco, Alessandro, Ros, Valentina, Urbani, Pierfrancesco
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Published: 2025
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author Fournier, Samantha J.
Pacco, Alessandro
Ros, Valentina
Urbani, Pierfrancesco
author_facet Fournier, Samantha J.
Pacco, Alessandro
Ros, Valentina
Urbani, Pierfrancesco
contents We investigate a model of high-dimensional dynamical variables with all-to-all interactions that are random and non-reciprocal. We characterize its phase diagram and show that the model can exhibit chaotic dynamics. We show that the equations describing the system's dynamics exhibit a number of equilibria that is exponentially large in the dimensionality of the system, and these equilibria are all linearly unstable in the chaotic phase. Solving the effective equations governing the dynamics in the infinite-dimensional limit, we determine the typical properties (magnetization, overlap) of the configurations belonging to the attractor manifold. We show that these properties cannot be inferred from those of the equilibria, challenging the expectation that chaos can be understood purely in terms of the numerous unstable equilibria of the dynamical equations. We discuss the dependence of this scenario on the strength of non-reciprocity in the interactions. These results are obtained through a combination of analytical methods such as Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and the Kac-Rice formalism.
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spellingShingle Non-reciprocal interactions and high-dimensional chaos: comparing dynamics and statistics of equilibria in a solvable class of models
Fournier, Samantha J.
Pacco, Alessandro
Ros, Valentina
Urbani, Pierfrancesco
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
We investigate a model of high-dimensional dynamical variables with all-to-all interactions that are random and non-reciprocal. We characterize its phase diagram and show that the model can exhibit chaotic dynamics. We show that the equations describing the system's dynamics exhibit a number of equilibria that is exponentially large in the dimensionality of the system, and these equilibria are all linearly unstable in the chaotic phase. Solving the effective equations governing the dynamics in the infinite-dimensional limit, we determine the typical properties (magnetization, overlap) of the configurations belonging to the attractor manifold. We show that these properties cannot be inferred from those of the equilibria, challenging the expectation that chaos can be understood purely in terms of the numerous unstable equilibria of the dynamical equations. We discuss the dependence of this scenario on the strength of non-reciprocity in the interactions. These results are obtained through a combination of analytical methods such as Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and the Kac-Rice formalism.
title Non-reciprocal interactions and high-dimensional chaos: comparing dynamics and statistics of equilibria in a solvable class of models
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20908