A criterion for stability of cluster synchronization in networks with external equitable partitions. (February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gambuzza, Lucia Valentina; Frasca, Mattia
• Is Part Of: Automatica. Volume 100(2019)
• Page Start: 212
• Page End: 218
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Subjects: Networked control systems -- Decentralized control -- Synchronization -- Equitable partitions; Automatic control -- Periodicals; Automation -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2018.11.026
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0005-1098

Abstract

Abstract: Networks of nonlinear dynamical systems may exhibit a collective state, known as cluster synchronization, characterized by the formation of groups, where the units within each cluster converge to the same behavior that is distinct for each cluster. In this brief paper we derive a criterion for local stability in Milnor sense of this synchronous state that is expressed as a simple relationship between the maximum Lyapunov exponent of the uncoupled dynamics, the coupling coefficient, and one eigenvalue of the graph Laplacian spectrum. In the last part of the paper we discuss the application of the criterion to networks design and control.