Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Designing temporal networks that synchronize under resource constraints

  • Yuanzhao Zhang,
  • Steven H. Strogatz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23446-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The ability of complex networks to synchronize themselves is limited by available coupling resources. Zhang and Strogatz show that allowing temporal variation in the network structure can lead to synchronization even when stable synchrony is impossible in any static network under the fixed budget.