Synchronization induced by directed higher-order interactions

Luca GALLO, Riccardo Muolo, Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Vito Latora, Mattia Frasca, Timoteo Carletti

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Abstract

Non-reciprocal interactions play a crucial role in many social and biological complex systems. While directionality has been thoroughly accounted for in networks with pairwise interactions, its effects in systems with higher-order interactions have not yet been explored as deserved. Here, we introduce the concept of M-directed hypergraphs, a general class of directed higher-order structures, which allows to investigate dynamical systems coupled through directed group interactions. As an application we study the synchronization of nonlinear oscillators on 1-directed hypergraphs, finding that directed higher-order interactions can destroy synchronization, but also stabilize otherwise unstable synchronized states.

Original languageEnglish
Article number263
JournalCommunications Physics
Volume5
Issue number263
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Oct 2022

Keywords

  • high-order networks
  • directed interactions
  • synchronization
  • complex networks
  • hypergraphs
  • simplicial complex

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