GLOBAL AND PARTIAL PHASE SYNCHRONIZATIONS IN ARRAYS OF PIECEWISE LINEAR TIME-DELAY SYSTEMS

In this paper, we report the phenomena of global and partial phase synchronizations in linear arrays of unidirectionally coupled piecewise linear time-delay systems. In particular, in a linear array with open end boundary conditions, global phase synchronization (GPS) is achieved by a sequential synchronization of local oscillators in the array as a function of the coupling strength (a second order transition). Several phase synchronized...