Global considerations on the Kuramoto model of sinusoidally coupled oscillators

In this article we study global stability properties of the Kuramoto model of sinusoidally coupled oscillators. We base our analysis on previous results by the control community that analyze local properties of the consensus point of different kinds of Kuramoto models. We prove that for the complete symmetric case, the consensus point is almost globally stable, that is, the set of trajectories that do not converge to it has zero measure. We present a counter-example of that when the completeness hypothesis is removed. We also show that the general non-symmetric case is more complex and we analyze the particular case of oscillators coupled in a ring structure, where we can establish some global stability properties.

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