Higher-order network interactions through phase reduction for oscillators with phase-dependent amplitude (Q6588232)

In the study of networks of coupled oscillators, if each oscillator has a stable limit cycle without coupling, then the whole system will settle to an invariant torus for sufficiently small coupling strengths. A phase-reduced system then describes the dynamics on this invariant torus, and often one considers a first-order expansion in the coupling strength. But to accurately describe the dynamics of the full system, one sometimes has to resort to higher-order phase reductions.\N\NIn this paper, the authors derive higher-order phase reductions for systems in which the limit cycle has phase-dependent amplitude by expanding in terms of both the coupling strength between oscillators as well as the size of the symmetry-breaking perturbation. They then analyze how these higher-order interaction terms affect the stability of full synchrony and the splay configuration. Their approach allows one to compute phase reductions not only for symmetric all-to-all coupled networks, but also coupled oscillators on arbitrary graphs. Thus, for coupled oscillators on a given graph with additive interactions, they obtain a parameterized family of effective phase dynamics which include higher-order nonpairwise phase interactions that depend nonlinearly on three or more oscillator phases. The results provide a tool to construct phase dynamics on hypergraphs that are a meaningful approximation of systems of nonlinearly coupled oscillators.