Lower critical dimension for populations of oscillators with randomly distributed frequencies: A renormalization-group analysis.

It is argued by way of a renormalization-group analysis that the lower critical dimension of macroscopic mutual entrainment in a class of populations of oscillators satisfies a certain inequality which is sensitive to the tail of the distribution of native frequencies. This result is supported in part by numerical simulations as well as a proof of the absence of long-range order in one dimension.

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