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Conditional preservation of chimera states under equitable network coarse-graining

Margherita Bertè·Thierry Njougouo·Paolo Sarti·Tommaso Gili
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Chimera states, characterized by the coexistence of coherent and incoherent dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators, are among the most intriguing collective phenomena in nonlinear systems and are strongly shaped by the underlying topology and initial conditions. Their analysis in large-scale networks remains computationally demanding and motivates the development of coarse-graining strategies that reduce network size while retaining the essential dynamical features of chimera behavior. In this Letter, we investigate whether equitable-partition-based quotient graphs can preserve chimera patterns under substantial reductions of network size. Using nonlocally coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) oscillators, we exploit the fact that, for an equitable partition, the full-network dynamics restricted to the associated cluster-synchronous subspace coincide exactly with the quotient dynamics. We ask whether this structural exactness is sufficient to preserve chimera signatures after the network size reduction. Our results show that this is not necessarily the case: agreement between quotient and full-network chimera dynamics depends on the equitable partition, and exact quotient dynamics do not necessarily guarantee the transverse stability of the corresponding full-network trajectory. Importantly, when the cluster-synchronous solution becomes transversely unstable, the full network may depart from the exact quotient trajectory while remaining in a macroscopic chimera regime. Therefore, structural exactness and dynamical preservation are distinct requirements, and transverse stability provides a complementary criterion for assessing quotient-based coarse-graining of chimera states.

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Margherita Bertè, Thierry Njougouo, Paolo Sarti, Tommaso Gili. 2026-09-23. Conditional preservation of chimera states under equitable network coarse-graining. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28733

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