Synchronization of coupled chaotic maps

Abstract

We prove a sufficient condition for synchronization for coupled one-dimensional maps and estimate the size of the window of parameters where synchronization takes place. It is shown that coupled systems on graphs with positive eigenvalues (EVs) of the normalized graph Laplacian concentrated around 1 are more amenable for synchronization. In the light of this condition, we review spectral properties of Cayley, quasirandom, power-law graphs, and expanders and relate them to synchronization of the corresponding networks. The analysis of synchronization on these graphs is illustrated with numerical experiments. The results of this paper highlight the advantages of random connectivity for synchronization of coupled chaotic dynamical systems.

arXiv commentKeywords: synchronization, chaos, Cayley graph, quasirandom graph, power-law graph, expander

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