Anti-Synchronization of a Class of Chaotic Systems with Application to Lorenz System: A Unified Analysis of the Integer Order and Fractional Order

Interlayer antisynchronization in degree-biased duplex networks

With synchronization being one of nature's most ubiquitous collective behaviors, the field of network synchronization has experienced tremendous growth, leading to significant theoretical developments. However, most previous studies consider uniform connection weights and undirected networks with positive coupling. In the present article, we incorporate the asymmetry in a two-layer multiplex network by assigning the ratio of the adjacent nodes' degrees as the weights to the intralayer edges. Despite the presence of degree-biased weighting mechanism and attractive-repulsive coupling strengths, we are able to find the necessary conditions for intralayer synchronization and interlayer antisynchronization and test whether these two macroscopic states can withstand demultiplexing in a network. During the occurrence of these two states, we analytically calculate the oscillator's amplitude. In addition to deriving the local stability conditions for interlayer antisynchronization via the master stability function approach, we also construct a suitable Lyapunov function to determine a sufficient condition for global stability. We provide numerical evidence to show the necessity of negative interlayer coupling strength for the occurrence of antisynchronization, and such repulsive interlayer coupling coefficients cannot destroy intralayer synchronization.

Global Stability of Fractional Order Coupled Systems with Impulses via a Graphic Approach

Based on the graph theory and stability theory of dynamical system, this paper studies the stability of the trivial solution of a coupled fractional-order system. Some sufficient conditions are obtained to guarantee the global stability of the trivial solution. Finally, a comparison between fractional-order system and integer-order system ends the paper.