The steady-state lifting bifurcation problem associated with the valency on networks

Abstract

In this paper we consider homogeneous coupled cell networks with asymmetric inputs — networks where each cell receives exactly one input of each edge type. The coupled cell systems associated with a network are the dynamical systems that respect the network structure. There are subspaces, determined solely by the network structure, that are flow-invariant under any such coupled cell system — the synchrony subspaces. For a homogeneous network with asymmetric inputs, one of the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix of any coupled cell system at an equilibrium in the full-synchrony subspace corresponds to the valency of the network. In this work, we study the codimension-one steady-state bifurcations of coupled cell systems with a bifurcation condition associated with the valency. We start by giving an adaptation of the Perron–Frobenius Theorem for the eigenspace associated with the valency showing that the dimension of that eigenspace equals the number of the network source components. A network source component is a strongly connected component of the network whose cells receive inputs only from cells in the component. Each synchrony subspace determines a smaller network called quotient network. The lifting bifurcation problem addresses the issue of understanding when the bifurcation branches of a network can be lifted from one of its quotient networks. We consider the lifting bifurcation problem when the bifurcation condition is associated with the valency. We give sufficient conditions on the number of source components for the answer to the lifting bifurcation problem to be positive and prove that those conditions are necessary and sufficient for a class of networks.