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Designing temporal networks that synchronize under resource constraints

Yuanzhao Zhang
Santa Fe Institute
Oct 22, 2021

Being fundamentally a non-equilibrium process, synchronization comes with unavoidable energy costs and has to be maintained under the constraint of limited resources. Such resource constraints are often reflected as a finite coupling budget available in a network to facilitate interaction and communication. In this talk, I will show that introducing temporal variation in the network structure can lead to efficient synchronization even when stable synchrony is impossible in any static network under the given budget. Our strategy is based on an open-loop control scheme and alludes to a fundamental advantage of temporal networks. Whether this advantage of temporality can be utilized in the brain is an interesting open question.

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