Information flow between weakly interacting lattices of coupled maps

Metastability and functional integration in anisotropically coupled map lattices

“…Particularly, we investigate the conditions for such a metastable regime to emerge in diffusively coupled map lattices of logistic maps. We extend the coupled map lattices model (CML) [16] and consider a multi-lattice system in which each chaotic unit is also coupled to units of other lattices (see [17], for a similar extension) as it is the case in sparse networks. We discover that the values of the coupling strength of units to the network (diffusing coefficient or total coupling) and the coupling strength between units belonging to the same lattice and to other lattices (intra-and inter-lattice coupling ratio) significantly influence the occurrence of global integration and local segregation.…”