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Stochastic Non-Linear Influence in Synchronisation Dynamics

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We propose a mathematical model that represents the influence of an external actor (influencer) on a network of actors (influenced). The model is an adaptation of control systems within the family of formulations inspired by the Kuramoto Model of synchronisation. Capturing influence as a capacity to affect the character or behaviour of another, we study an external node's ability to influence the synchronisation of the Kuramoto system while its global behaviour is pulled to the external node's frequency and away from its natural mean frequency. In our work, stochastically generated dynamical weights assigned to the links between the network and the external influencer whereby links from one system to the other are assigned via one-sided heavy tail noise, generated by the Gamma distribution. We perform numerical experiments to examine transition points in the ability of the external node to alter the behaviour of the influenced network; either to disrupt synchronisation or to drive it to collective frequencies determined by the external node. We examine the dependence of transition points on the external node's frequency, where too ambitious a driving frequency fails to influence the system while retaining a synchronised state, and reducing achieves a state of synchronisation at a frequency shifted from the mean natural frequency. We also look at the analytic approximation for the system close to synchronisation and fragmentation to understand its behaviour around this limit.

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Hannah Gallant, Dale Roberts, Alexander Kalloniatis. 2026-08-05. Stochastic Non-Linear Influence in Synchronisation Dynamics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04749

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