Phase Synchronization in Random Geometric Graphs on the 2D Sphere

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Hauptverfasser: De Vita, Cecilia, Groisman, Pablo, Huang, Ruojun
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author De Vita, Cecilia
Groisman, Pablo
Huang, Ruojun
author_facet De Vita, Cecilia
Groisman, Pablo
Huang, Ruojun
contents The Kuramoto model is a classical nonlinear ODE system designed to study synchronization phenomena. Each equation represents the phase of an oscillator and the coupling between them is determined by a graph. There is an increasing interest in understanding the relation between the graph topology and the spontaneous synchronization of the oscillators. Abdalla, Bandeira and Invernizzi considered random geometric graphs on the $d$-dimensional sphere and proved that the system synchronizes with high probability as long as the mean number of neighbors and the dimension $d$ go to infinity. They posed the question about the behavior when $d$ is small. In this paper, we prove that synchronization holds for random geometric graphs on the two-dimensional sphere, with high probability as the number of nodes goes to infinity, as long as the initial conditions converge to a smooth function. We conjecture a similar behavior for more general simply-connected closed Riemannian manifolds but we expect global synchronization to fail if the manifold is not simply-connected, as was shown in [11] and suggested in [9].
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spellingShingle Phase Synchronization in Random Geometric Graphs on the 2D Sphere
De Vita, Cecilia
Groisman, Pablo
Huang, Ruojun
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The Kuramoto model is a classical nonlinear ODE system designed to study synchronization phenomena. Each equation represents the phase of an oscillator and the coupling between them is determined by a graph. There is an increasing interest in understanding the relation between the graph topology and the spontaneous synchronization of the oscillators. Abdalla, Bandeira and Invernizzi considered random geometric graphs on the $d$-dimensional sphere and proved that the system synchronizes with high probability as long as the mean number of neighbors and the dimension $d$ go to infinity. They posed the question about the behavior when $d$ is small. In this paper, we prove that synchronization holds for random geometric graphs on the two-dimensional sphere, with high probability as the number of nodes goes to infinity, as long as the initial conditions converge to a smooth function. We conjecture a similar behavior for more general simply-connected closed Riemannian manifolds but we expect global synchronization to fail if the manifold is not simply-connected, as was shown in [11] and suggested in [9].
title Phase Synchronization in Random Geometric Graphs on the 2D Sphere
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01151