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Reducibility of steady-state bifurcations in coupled cell systems. (English) Zbl 1308.92038

Summary: A general theory for coupled cell systems was formulated recently by I. Stewart et al. [SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 2, No. 4, 609–646 (2003; Zbl 1089.34032)]. In their theory, a coupled cell system is a network of interacting dynamical systems whose coupling architecture is expressed by a directed graph called a coupled cell network. An equivalence relation on cells in a regular network (a coupled cell network with identical nodes and identical edges) determines a new network called quotient network by identifying cells in the same equivalence class and determines a quotient system as well. In this paper we develop an idea of reducibility of bifurcations in coupled cell systems associated with regular networks. A bifurcation of equilibria from subspace where states of all cells are equal is called a synchrony-breaking bifurcation. We say that a synchrony-breaking steady-state bifurcation is reducible in a coupled cell system if any bifurcation branch for the system is lifted from those for some quotient system. First, we give the complete classification of codimension-one synchrony-breaking steady-state bifurcations in 1-input regular networks (where each cell receives only one edge). Second, we show that under a mild condition on the multiplicity of critical eigenvalues, codimension-one synchrony-breaking steady-state bifurcations in generic coupled cell systems associated with an \(n\)-cell coupled cell network with \(D_n\) symmetry, a regular network, is reducible for \(n>2\).

MSC:

92C42 Systems biology, networks
92C37 Cell biology

Citations:

Zbl 1089.34032
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