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A. A. Koronovskii, O. I. Moskalenko, A. E. Hramov

Chaotic Dynamics · Submitted 25 Feb 2006 · 35 references

Pith's verdict: Generalized and noise-induced synchronization share a plausible dissipative mechanism, but the paper's central necessary condition is asserted, not derived.

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CitationA. A. Koronovskii, A. E. Hramov, O. I. Moskalenko. "Mechanisms Behind the Generalized Synchronization Conditions." arXiv:nlin/0602054 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/AEZVUQAJ
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Generalized synchronization and noise-induced synchronization are claimed to be one phenomenon: the drive or common noise suppresses the driven system's intrinsic chaos through dissipation, making the response a function of the input.

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Two seemingly distinct phenomena in unidirectionally coupled chaotic systems — generalized synchronization, where the driven system's state becomes a function of the driving state, and noise-induced synchronization, where two systems sharing a noise source behave identically — are claimed to be one effect. The paper argues that both arise when the drive, or the shared noise, suppresses the driven system's intrinsic chaotic oscillations by increasing effective dissipation. After rewriting the driven subsystem as a modified system with an extra dissipative term and external forcing, the authors show that synchronization sets in once that modified system is a sufficiently stable periodic or steady regime, so the chaotic input merely perturbs it. This explains why the generalized-synchronization threshold is nearly independent of parameter mismatch and unifies the two synchronization types under a single mechanism.

What carries the argument

The central object is the modified system with added dissipation, obtained by rewriting the driven subsystem $x_{dr}$ of equations (2) as $\dot{x}_m = H'(x_m, g_{dr},\varepsilon) + \varepsilon A x_d$, where $H'(x,g,\varepsilon)=H(x,g)-\varepsilon A x$; the term $-\varepsilon A x$ is the added dissipation. As the coupling parameter $\varepsilon$ grows, this autonomous modified system undergoes a reverse bifurcation cascade from chaos to periodic oscillations and then to a steady state. The paper uses the stability of that regular regime as the condition under which the driven system's intrinsic chaos is suppressed and the functional relation $x_{dr}=F[x_d]$ is established, and it uses the same suppression picture, via phase-space compression or noise with a nonzero mean, to account for nondissipative and noise-induced synchronization.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that generalized synchronization and noise-induced synchronization are the same phenomenon, caused by suppression of the driven system's intrinsic chaotic dynamics through dissipation. In the dissipative-coupling case, the driven oscillator is recast as a modified system with an additional term $-\varepsilon A x$ that acts as damping, plus an external forcing from the drive; increasing the coupling parameter both raises this damping and raises the forcing amplitude. Generalized synchronization appears when the modified system's regular, periodic or steady, regime is stable enough that the forcing cannot re-excite chaos, so the response is a function of the drive, $x_{dr}(t)=F[x_d(t)]$. In the nondissipative case, the external signal achieves the same suppression by moving the trajectory into strongly dissipative regions of phase space. Noise-induced synchronization obeys the same logic, with the common noise playing the suppressing role, so both regimes require negative conditional Lyapunov exponents and should be regarded as one type of synchronous behavior.

Load-bearing premise

The argument depends on assuming that the modified system's transition to periodic or steady motion is the right criterion for generalized synchronization in the coupled system, even though the two systems' stability measures are not the same; if that proxy fails, the proposed universal mechanism and the identification with noise-induced synchronization lose their foundation.

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  • Generalized synchronization should be expected whenever the coupling injects enough dissipation to stabilize a regular regime in the driven system, no matter whether the coupling is dissipative, nondissipative, or noise-driven.
  • The threshold $\varepsilon_{gs}$ for generalized synchronization is set by the stability of that regular regime, not by the precise parameters of the drive, which is why parameter mismatch has little effect on the threshold.
  • For logistic-map coupling, the onset of generalized synchronization at $\varepsilon \approx 0.32$ coincides with the modified map having a stable fixed point, so the mechanism applies to discrete-time systems as well.
  • Because generalized and noise-induced synchronization share the same mechanism, diagnostics such as the auxiliary-system method should work for both, and results obtained for one type should transfer to the other.
  • The negative-conditional-Lyapunov-exponent criterion is the quantitative signature of the dissipation-induced suppression in all these regimes.

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  • If the dissipation-suppression mechanism is universal, then any coupling scheme that monotonically increases effective damping in the driven system, for instance local negative feedback or parameter drift, should produce generalized synchronization even without a direct drive signal; this could be tested by replacing the drive with a fixed dissipative controller.
  • The identification of generalized with noise-induced synchronization suggests a practical diagnostic swap: setups known to exhibit one regime should also exhibit the other under the corresponding excitation, which could be verified with common-noise sources in systems currently classified by their coupling type.
  • A quantitative extension would connect the threshold $\varepsilon_{gs}$ to the finite-time stability of the modified system's regular regime, predicting that $\varepsilon_{gs}$ tracks the point where the periodic orbit's largest finite-time exponent becomes robustly negative rather than the static bifurcation point.
Original abstract

A universal mechanism underlying generalized synchronization conditions in unidirectionally coupled stochastic oscillators is considered. The consideration is carried out in the framework of a modified system with additional dissipation. The approach developed is illustrated with model examples. The conclusion is reached that two types of the behavior of nonlinear dynamic systems known as generalized synchronization and noise-induced synchronization, which are viewed as different phenomena, actually represent a unique type of the synchronous behavior of stochastic oscillators and are caused by the same mechanism.

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A universal mechanism underlying generalized synchronization conditions in unidirectionally coupled stochastic oscillators is considered. The consideration is carried out in the framework of a modified system with additional dissipation. The approach developed is illustrated with model examples. The conclusion is reached that two types of the behavior of nonlinear dynamic systems known as generalized synchronization and noise-induced synchronization, which are viewed as different phenomena, actually represent a unique type of the synchronous behavior of stochastic oscillators and are caused by the same mechanism.

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Figure 1. (a) Bifurcation diagram for the modified Ressler sys￾tem vs. control parameter ε, (b, c) ε dependences of the Lyapunov exponent spectra for the Ressler system weakly (ωd = 0.99) and strongly (ωd = 1.30) offset in parameter ω (the conditional Lyapunov exponents are shown by the dashed, , and dash-and-dot, , lines), and (d) bifurca￾tion diagram for the nonautonomous modified Ressler sys￾tem subjected to an external harmonic perturbation. The value of ε at which the periodic regime sets in, εp, is shown by the arrow. λ1 dr λ2 dr
Figure 2. , where time realization ydr(t) of the driven Lorentz system in the autonomous regime and external perturbation εgsyd(t) are shown. It is seen that the exter￾nal force shifts the representative point in the phase space of the driven system toward domains with strong dissipation, as a result of which the intrinsic chaotic dynamics of the system becomes suppressed and the generalized synchronization conditions set in. Thus, two similar mechanisms underlie the general￾ized synchronization regime, which are based on sup￾pressing intrinsic chaotic oscillations by means of dis￾sipation.…
Figure 3. shows the phase portraits for the (a) auton￾omous chaotic Lorentz system and (b, c) the same sys￾tem subjected to an external perturbation. The general￾ized synchronization of oscillators (11) and (12) at ε = 20 is shown in Fig. 3b; the noise-induced synchroniza￾tion, in Fig. 3c [28]. Here, the Lorentz system is described by the equations (13) (with the same values of the control parameters as in (12)) and random delta-correlated Gaussian process 〈ξ(t)ξ(t')〉 = δ(t – t') with amplitude  = 40 is taken as an external perturbation. It is distinctly seen that the structure of the…
Figure 4. Planes (ξn, yn) and (yn, vn) of logistic mapping (14) for coupling parameter ε = (a, b) 0.125 and (c, d) 0.175. At ε = 0.175, the driven, yn, and auxiliary, vn, systems behave in the same manner, yn = vn, indicating the presence of functional dependence yn = F(ξn) and, hence, establishment of the synchronous regime. 3 2 1 0 –1 –2 0 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 ε λc
Figure 5. Conditional Lyapunov exponent λc of system (14) vs. coupling parameter ε. The distribution of Random quan￾tity ξn obeys normal law (15). The arrow marks the onset of synchronization

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