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Rommel Tchinda Djeudjo1, Timoteo Carletti1, Hiroya Nakao2,3
1University of Namur, Namur Institute for Complex Systems, Department of Mathematics & naXys, B5000 Namur, Belgium.
Abstract:
Chimera states are synchronization patterns in which coherent and incoherent regions coexist in systems of identical oscillators. This elusive phenomenon has attracted significant interest and has been widely analyzed, revealing several types of dynamical states. Most studies involve reciprocal pairwise couplings, where each oscillator exerts and receives the same interaction from neighboring ones, thus being modeled via symmetric networks. However, real-world systems often exhibit nonreciprocal, nonpairwise (many-body) interactions. Previous studies have shown that chimera states are more elusive in the presence of nonreciprocal pairwise interactions, while they are easier to observe when the interactions are reciprocal and higher-order (many-body). In this work, we investigate the emergence of chimera states on nonreciprocal higher-order structures, called m-directed hypergraphs, which we compare with their corresponding networks, and we observe that some types of chimera states can emerge due to directionality, which had not been previously observed in its absence. We also compare the effect of nonreciprocal interactions between higher-order and pairwise couplings, and we find numerically that chimera states appear over a broader parameter range when considering higher-order interactions than in the corresponding network case, demonstrating the impact of directionality and the effect of higher-order interactions. Finally, the nature of phase chimeras has been further validated through phase reduction theory.
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