Special Jordan subspaces in Coupled Cell Networks

Abstract: Given a regular network (in which all cells have the same type and receive the same number of inputs and all arrows have the same type), we define the special Jordan subspaces to that network and we use these subspaces to study the synchrony phenomenon in the theory of coupled cell networks. To be more precise, we prove that the synchrony subspaces of a regular network are precisely the polydiagonals that are direct sums of special Jordan subspaces. We also show that special Jordan subspaces play a special role in the lattice structure of all synchrony subspace because every join-irreducible element of the lattice is the smallest synchrony subspace containing some special Jordan subspace.