Dynamical aspects of mean field plane rotators and the Kuramoto model

Details Dynamical aspects of mean field plane rotators and the Kuramoto model Dynamical aspects of mean field plane rotators and the Kuramoto model

2009-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1499v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

18 pages, 1 figure

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The Kuramoto model has been introduced in order to describe synchronization phenomena observed in groups of cells, individuals, circuits, etc... We look at the Kuramoto model with white noise forces: in mathematical terms it is a set of N oscillators, each driven by an independent Brownian motion with a constant drift, that is each oscillator has its own frequency, which, in general, changes from one oscillator to another (these frequencies are usually taken to be random and they may be viewed as a quenched disorder). The interactions between oscillators are of long range type (mean field). We review some results on the Kuramoto model from a statistical mechanics standpoint: we give in particular necessary and sufficient conditions for reversibility and we point out a formal analogy, in the N to infinity limit, with local mean field models with conservative dynamics (an analogy that is exploited to identify in particular a Lyapunov functional in the reversible set-up). We then focus on the reversible Kuramoto model with sinusoidal interactions in the N to infinity limit and analyze the stability of the non-trivial stationary profiles arising when the interaction parameter K is larger than its critical value K_c. We provide an analysis of the linear operator describing the time evolution in a neighborhood of the synchronized profile: we exhibit a Hilbert space in which this operator has a self-adjoint extension and we establish, as our main result, a spectral gap inequality for every K>K_c.

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