Local attractors, degeneracy and analyticity: symmetry effects on the locally coupled Kuramoto model (Q2451092)

This paper considers the locally coupled Kuramoto model, i.e.~a network of phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled through a sinusoidal function to its two nearest neighbours. The emphasis is on analytically finding synchronised solutions and their stability. The distribution of intrinsic frequencies is assumed to have some symmetry, and this property is used extensively in the analysis. Small networks (\(N=3,4\)) are considered first, then larger networks in which frequencies alternate between two values as one moves around the ring, and several more similar cases.