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Nonlocal coupling can prevent the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos
Safia Yonker1, Renate Wackerbauer
1Department of Physics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5920, USA.
Abstract:
Spatiotemporal chaos on a regular ring network of excitable Gray-Scott dynamical elements is transient. We find that the addition of very few nonlocal network connections drastically changes the average lifetime of spatiotemporal chaos. In the presence of a single shortcut local interface formation delays the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos. This competes with a reduced average characteristic path length that advances the collapse process. Two added shortcuts can prevent the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos by causing an asymptotic local collapse.
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