Origins of Instability in Dynamical Systems on Undirected Networks
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| author | Dawn, Shraosi Ghosh, Subrata Meena, Chandrakala Rogers, Tim Hens, Chittaranjan |
| author_facet | Dawn, Shraosi Ghosh, Subrata Meena, Chandrakala Rogers, Tim Hens, Chittaranjan |
| contents | Robustness to perturbation is a key topic in the study of complex systems occurring across a wide variety of applications from epidemiology to biochemistry. Here we analyze the eigenspectrum of the Jacobian matrices associated to a general class of networked dynamical systems, which contains information on how perturbations to a stationary state develop over time. We find that stability is always determined by a spectral outlier, but with pronounced differences to the corresponding eigenvector in different regimes. We show that, depending on model details, instability may originate in nodes of anomalously low or high degree, or may occur everywhere in the network at once. Importantly, the dependence on extremal degrees results in considerable finite-size effects with different scaling depending on the ensemble degree distribution. Our results have potentially useful applications in network monitoring to predict or prevent catastrophic failures, and we validate our analytical findings through applications to epidemic dynamics and gene regulatory systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Origins of Instability in Dynamical Systems on Undirected Networks Dawn, Shraosi Ghosh, Subrata Meena, Chandrakala Rogers, Tim Hens, Chittaranjan Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Mathematical Physics Biological Physics Robustness to perturbation is a key topic in the study of complex systems occurring across a wide variety of applications from epidemiology to biochemistry. Here we analyze the eigenspectrum of the Jacobian matrices associated to a general class of networked dynamical systems, which contains information on how perturbations to a stationary state develop over time. We find that stability is always determined by a spectral outlier, but with pronounced differences to the corresponding eigenvector in different regimes. We show that, depending on model details, instability may originate in nodes of anomalously low or high degree, or may occur everywhere in the network at once. Importantly, the dependence on extremal degrees results in considerable finite-size effects with different scaling depending on the ensemble degree distribution. Our results have potentially useful applications in network monitoring to predict or prevent catastrophic failures, and we validate our analytical findings through applications to epidemic dynamics and gene regulatory systems. |
| title | Origins of Instability in Dynamical Systems on Undirected Networks |
| topic | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Mathematical Physics Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09765 |