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Guilherme S Costa1, Marcel Novaes2,3, Ricardo Fariello4
1ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, & Instituto de Física Teórica - UNESP, 01140-070 São Paulo, Brazil.
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We study the dynamics of the Kuramoto model on the sphere under higher-order interactions and an external periodic force. For identical oscillators, we introduce a novel way to incorporate three- and four-body interactions into the dynamics of the order parameter, allowing for a full dimensional reduction of this system. We discuss how such reduction can be implemented in two different ways and how they are related. When restricted to the equator, the dynamics is similar to that of the usual Kuramoto model, up to an interesting renormalization of the coupling constants. Outside this plane, the motion reduces to a two-parameter set of periodic orbits. We also locate the bifurcation curves of the system as functions of different parameters.
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