Unstable Manifolds for the Kuramoto Model: Convergence to the Ott-Antonsen Manifold

Abstract

In this paper, we study the finite-dimensional, homogeneous, all-to-all coupled Kuramoto model. We begin by performing a complete spectral analysis of all equilibria of the system. Motivated by this analysis, we then derive an explicit description of the unstable manifolds associated with the family of incoherent equilibria. Subsequently, we establish the convergence of this family of unstable manifolds to the Ott-Antonsen manifold $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{OA}}$, with respect to the Hausdorff distance induced by the $p$-Wasserstein metric. We further carry out an analogous analysis for the corresponding counterpart of $\mathcal{M}_{\mathrm{OA}}$ in the continuum limit. Moreover, we establish the uniform-in-time convergence of trajectories of the finite-dimensional Kuramoto model on these invariant manifolds towards their corresponding mean-field limit trajectories. Our results provide a direct geometric link between finite-dimensional particle systems and their mean-field, or continuum, limits.