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Star-type oscillatory networks with generic Kuramoto-type coupling: A model for "Japanese drums synchrony"
Vladimir Vlasov1, Arkady Pikovsky1, Elbert E N Macau2
1Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Abstract:
We analyze star-type networks of phase oscillators by virtue of two methods. For identical oscillators we adopt the Watanabe-Strogatz approach, which gives full analytical description of states, rotating with constant frequency. For nonidentical oscillators, such states can be obtained by virtue of the self-consistent approach in a parametric form. In this case stability analysis cannot be performed, however with the help of direct numerical simulations we show which solutions are stable and which not. We consider this system as a model for a drum orchestra, where we assume that the drummers follow the signal of the leader without listening to each other and the coupling parameters are determined by a geometrical organization of the orchestra.
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