Singular basins in multiscale systems: tunneling between stable states
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| author | Yanchuk, Serhiy Wieczorek, Sebastian Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto Alkhayuon, Hassan |
| author_facet | Yanchuk, Serhiy Wieczorek, Sebastian Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto Alkhayuon, Hassan |
| contents | Real-world systems often evolve on different timescales and possess multiple coexisting stable states. Whether or not a system returns to a given stable state after being perturbed away from it depends on the shape and extent of its basin of attraction. We show that basins of attraction in multiscale systems can exhibit special geometric properties in the form of singular funnels. Although singular funnels are narrow, they can extend to different regions of the phase space and, unexpectedly, impact the system's resilience to perturbations. Consequently, singular funnels may prevent common dimensionality reductions in the limit of large timescale separation, such as the quasi-static approximation, adiabatic elimination and time-averaging of the fast variables. We refer to basins of attraction with singular funnels as singular basins. We show that singular basins are universal and occur robustly in a range of multiscale systems: the normal form of a pitchfork bifurcation with a slowly adapting parameter, an adaptive active rotator, and an adaptive network of phase rotators. |
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| spellingShingle | Singular basins in multiscale systems: tunneling between stable states Yanchuk, Serhiy Wieczorek, Sebastian Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto Alkhayuon, Hassan Dynamical Systems Mathematical Physics Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Real-world systems often evolve on different timescales and possess multiple coexisting stable states. Whether or not a system returns to a given stable state after being perturbed away from it depends on the shape and extent of its basin of attraction. We show that basins of attraction in multiscale systems can exhibit special geometric properties in the form of singular funnels. Although singular funnels are narrow, they can extend to different regions of the phase space and, unexpectedly, impact the system's resilience to perturbations. Consequently, singular funnels may prevent common dimensionality reductions in the limit of large timescale separation, such as the quasi-static approximation, adiabatic elimination and time-averaging of the fast variables. We refer to basins of attraction with singular funnels as singular basins. We show that singular basins are universal and occur robustly in a range of multiscale systems: the normal form of a pitchfork bifurcation with a slowly adapting parameter, an adaptive active rotator, and an adaptive network of phase rotators. |
| title | Singular basins in multiscale systems: tunneling between stable states |
| topic | Dynamical Systems Mathematical Physics Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02001 |