Document Type

Pre-Print

Publication Date

10-2014

Subjects

Dynamical Systems, Chaotic behavior in systems, Nonlinear systems

Abstract

The purpose of this note is threefold. First we state a few conjectures that allow us to rigorously derive a theory which is asymptotic in N (the number of agents) that describes transients in large arrays of (identical) linear damped harmonic oscillators in R with completely decentralized nearest neighbor interaction. We then use the theory to establish that in a certain range of the parameters transients grow linearly in the number of agents (and faster outside that range). Finally, in the regime where this linear growth occurs we give the constant of proportionality as a function of the signal velocities (see [3]) in each of the two directions. As corollaries we show that symmetric interactions are far from optimal and that all these results independent of (reasonable) boundary conditions.

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Pre-print of an article which was submitted for publication.

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17535

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