Perspectives on multi-level dynamics

DOI10.5890/DNC.2016.09.009MaRDI QIDQ2833756zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fatihcan M. Atay, Sven Banisch, D. Volchenkov, Ph. Blanchard, Bruno Cessac, Eckehard Olbrich

Publication date 25 November 2016

Published in Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05665

zbMATH Keywords

hierarchy of levels multi-level dynamical systems reduction of dimensionality scales and levels

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of dynamical systems (37N99)

Abstract: As Physics did in previous centuries, there is currently a common dream of extracting generic laws of nature in economics, sociology, neuroscience, by focalising the description of phenomena to a minimal set of variables and parameters, linked together by causal equations of evolution whose structure may reveal hidden principles. This requires a huge reduction of dimensionality (number of degrees of freedom) and a change in the level of description. Beyond the mere necessity of developing accurate techniques affording this reduction, there is the question of the correspondence between the initial system and the reduced one. In this paper, we offer a perspective towards a common framework for discussing and understanding multi-level systems exhibiting structures at various spatial and temporal levels. We propose a common foundation and illustrate it with examples from different fields. We also point out the difficulties in constructing such a general setting and its limitations.

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