Higher-order simplicial synchronization of coupled topological signals Ghorbanchian, Reza Restrepo, Juan G. Torres Agudo, Joaquín Bianconi, Ginestra This research utilized Queen Mary’s Apocrita HPC facility, supported by QMUL Research-IT (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.438045). G.B. acknowledge support from the Royal Society IEC\NSFC \191147. J.J.T. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Agencia Española de Investigación (AEI) under grant FIS2017-84256-P (FEDER funds) and from the Consejería de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidad, Junta de Andalucía and European Regional Development Fund, Refs. A-FQM-175-UGR18 and SOMM17/6105/UGR. Simplicial complexes capture the underlying network topology and geometry of complex systems ranging from the brain to social networks. Here we show that algebraic topology is a fundamental tool to capture the higher-order dynamics of simplicial complexes. In particular we consider topological signals, i.e., dynamical signals defined on simplices of different dimension, here taken to be nodes and links for simplicity. We show that coupling between signals defined on nodes and links leads to explosive topological synchronization in which phases defined on nodes synchronize simultaneously to phases defined on links at a discontinuous phase transition. We study the model on real connectomes and on simplicial complexes and network models. Finally, we provide a comprehensive theoretical approach that captures this transition on fully connected networks and on random networks treated within the annealed approximation, establishing the conditions for observing a closed hysteresis loop in the large network limit. 2021-06-18T11:26:16Z 2021-06-18T11:26:16Z 2021-06-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Ghorbanchian, R., Restrepo, J.G., Torres, J.J. et al. Higher-order simplicial synchronization of coupled topological signals. Commun Phys 4, 120 (2021). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00605-4] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69280 10.1038/s42005-021-00605-4 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Springer Nature