Dynamics of full-coupled chains of a great number of oscillators with a large delay in couplings

Abstract

The subject of this work is the study of local dynamics of full-coupled chains of a great number of oscillators with a large delay in couplings. From a discrete model describing the dynamics of a great number of coupled oscillators, a transition has been made to a nonlinear integro-differential equation, continuously depending on time and space variable. A class of full-coupled systems has been considered. The main assumption is that the amount of delay in the couplings is large enough. This assumption opens the way to the use of special asymptotic methods of study. The parameters under which the critical case is realized in the problem of the equilibrium state stability have been distinguished. It is shown that they have infinite dimension. The analogues of normal forms — nonlinear boundary value problems of Ginzburg–Landau type have been constructed. In some cases, these boundary value problems contain integral components too. Their nonlocal dynamics describes the behavior of all solutions of the original equations in the balance state neighbourhood. Methods. As applied to the considered problems, methods of constructing quasinormal forms on central manifolds are developed. An algorithm for constructing the asymptotics of solutions based on the use of quasinormal forms for determining slowly varying amplitudes has been created. Results. Quasinormal forms that determine the dynamics of the original boundary value problem have been constructed. The dominant terms of asymptotic approximations for solutions of the considered chains have been obtained. On the basis of the given statements, a number of interesting dynamical effects have been revealed. For example, an infinite alternation of direct and reverse bifurcations when the delay coefficient increases. Their distinguishing feature is that they have two or three spatial variables.