15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
PARTIAL SYNCHRONIZATION THROUGH PERMUTATION SYMMETRY
A. Pogromsky, G. Santoboni, and H. Nijmeijer
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of
Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands

In this paper we consider problem of the existence and stability of invariant manifolds in a network of diffusively coupled identical systems. It is shown that the existence of a symmetry in the network implies the existence of linear invariant manifolds. This correspond to so called partial synchronization, or clusterization, phenomenon occurring when some subsystems from the network operate in a synchronous manner. Conditions guaranteeing global asymptotic stability of the partial synchronization manifolds are presented.
Keywords: Synchronization, networks, symmetry
Session slot T-Th-A08: Chaos and synchronization/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems