Emerging Meso- and Macroscales from Synchronization of Adaptive Networks Articles uri icon

publication date

  • November 2011

start page

  • 1

end page

  • 5

issue

  • 234103

volume

  • 107

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0031-9007

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1079-7114

abstract

  • We consider a set of interacting phase oscillators, with a coupling between synchronized nodes adaptively reinforced, and the constraint of a limited resource for a node to establish connections with the other units of the network. We show that such a competitive mechanism leads to the emergence of a rich modular structure underlying cluster synchronization, and to a scale-free distribution for the connection strengths of the units.

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