Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2007-10-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
12 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2008/02/P02017
We studied, both analytically and numerically, complex excitable networks, in which connections are time dependent and some of the nodes remain silent at each time step. More specifically, (a) there is a heterogenous distribution of connection weights and, depending on the current degree of order, some connections are reinforced/weakened with strength Phi on short-time scales, and (b) only a fraction rho of nodes are simultaneously active. The resulting dynamics has attractors which, for a range of Phi values and rho exceeding a threshold, become unstable, the instability depending critically on the value of rho. We observe that (i) the activity describes a trajectory in which the close neighborhood of some of the attractors is constantly visited, (ii) the number of attractors visited increases with rho, and (iii) the trajectory may change from regular to chaotic and vice versa as rho is, even slightly modified. Furthermore, (iv) time series show a power-law spectra under conditions in which the attractors' space is most efficiently explored. We argue on the possible qualitative relevance of this phenomenology to networks in several natural contexts.
Cortes Jesus M.
Marro Joaquin
Torres Javier
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