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PLV: Plenarvorträge

PLV VIII

PLV VIII: Plenary Talk

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 08:30–09:15, H 0105

Topology shapes dynamics of higher-order networks — •Ginestra Bianconi — Queen Mary University of London — The Alan Turing Institute

Higher-order networks capture the interactions among two or more nodes and they are raising increasing interest in the study of complex systems. Here we show that higher-order interactions are responsible for new non-linear dynamical processes that cannot be observed in pairwise networks. We reveal how non-linear dynamical processes can be used to learn the topology, by defining Topological Kuramoto model and Topological global synchronization. These critical phenomena capture the synchronization of topological signals, i.e. dynamical signal defined not only on nodes but also on links, triangles and higher-dimensional simplices in simplicial complexes. Moreover will discuss how the Dirac operator can be used to couple and process topological signal of different dimensions, formulating Dirac signal processing. Finally we demonstrate how non-linear dynamics can shape topology by formulating triadic percolation. In triadic percolation triadic interactions can turn percolation into a fully-fledged dynamical process in which nodes can turn on and off intermittently in a periodic fashion or even chaotically leading to period doubling and a route to chaos of the percolation order parameter. Triadic percolation changes drastically our understanding of percolation and can describe real systems in which the giant component varies significantly in time such as in brain functional networks and in climate.

Keywords: Network theory; Higher-order networks; Topology; Complex systems