# behav: emergent togetherness in collaborative dance improvisation.

<< ️Collective improvisation in dance provides a rich natural laboratory for studying emergent coordination in coupled neuro-motor systems. Here, (AA) investigate how training shapes spontaneous synchronization patterns in both movement and brain signals during collaborative performance. >>

<< ️Results indicate that training produced an intriguing dissociation: inter-brain synchronization increased, particularly within the frontal lobe, while interpersonal motor synchrony decreased. This opposite trend suggests that enhanced participatory sense-making fosters neural alignment while simultaneously expanding individual motor explorations, thereby reducing coupling in movement. >>

<< ️(Their) findings position collaborative improvisation as a complex dynamical regime in which togetherness emerges not from identical motor outputs but from shared neural intentionality distributed across multilayer interaction networks, exemplifying the coupling-decoupling paradox, whereby increasing inter-brain synchrony supports the exploration of broader and mutually divergent motor trajectories. These results highlight the nonlinear nature of social coordination, offering new avenues for modeling creative joint action in human systems. >>

Yago Emanoel Ramos, Raphael Silva do Rosário, Adriana de Faria Gehres, 

et al. Emergent togetherness in collaborative dance improvisation: neural and motor synchronization reveal a coupling-decoupling paradox. arXiv: 2601.03478v1 [q-bio.NC]. Jan 7, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03478

Also: dance, behav, brain, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: behavior, dance, generative dance, social coordination, collective improvisation, brain functional networks, coupled neuro-motor systems, coupling-decoupling paradox.

# gst: beyond interpolation toward invention, the hypothesis of selective imperfection as a generative framework for analysis, creativity and discovery.

<< ️(AA) introduce materiomusic as a generative framework linking the hierarchical structures of matter with the compositional logic of music. Across proteins, spider webs and flame dynamics, vibrational and architectural principles recur as tonal hierarchies, harmonic progressions, and long-range musical form. >>

<< ️(They) show how sound functions as a scientific probe, an epistemic inversion where listening becomes a mode of seeing and musical composition becomes a blueprint for matter. >>

<< ️Selective imperfection provides the mechanism restoring balance between coherence and adaptability. >>

<< ️(They) show how swarm-based AI models compose music exhibiting human-like structural signatures such as small-world connectivity, modular integration, long-range coherence, suggesting a route beyond interpolation toward invention. (They) show that science and art are generative acts of world-building under constraint, with vibration as a shared grammar organizing structure across scales. >>

Markus J. Buehler. Selective Imperfection as a Generative Framework for Analysis, Creativity and Discovery. arXiv: 2601.00863v1 [cs.LG]. Dec 30,  2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00863

Also: jazz, music, clinamen, chaos, defect, error, mistake, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, jazz, music, clinamen, parenklisis, selective imperfection, defect, error, mistake, noise, invention, long-range coherence, chaos.

FonT:  apropos of 'selective imperfection', at one time I was surprised by the structure of a temple gate in Kyoto where one of the elements is installed upside down.

# gst: chimera states in wheel networks

<< ️How higher-order interactions influence dynamical behavior in networks of coupled chaotic oscillators remains an open question. To address this, (AA) investigate emergent dynamical behaviors in a wheel network of Rössler and Lorenz oscillators that incorporates both pairwise (1-simplex) and higher-order (2-simplex) interactions under three coupling schemes, namely, diffusive, conjugate, and mean-field diffusive coupling. >>

<< ️(AA) numerical analysis reveals four distinct collective behaviors: synchronization, desynchronization, chimera states, and synchronized clusters. To systematically classify these dynamical behaviors, (They) introduce two statistical measures that effectively capture synchronization patterns among arbitrarily positioned nodes. Applying these measures across all dynamical models and coupling schemes (six different models in total), (They) show that both pairwise and higher-order interactions crucially influence the emergence and robustness of chimera states. (They) observe that under pairwise interaction alone, chimera states appear with high prevalence in specific coupling ranges, though the robustness depends on both the coupling scheme and the underlying dynamical system. >>

<< Incorporation of higher-order interactions reveals that the higher-order interaction underlying diffusive coupling enhances chimera states in both Rössler and Lorenz networks; under conjugate coupling, it strengthens chimera states in Lorenz but instead promotes full synchronization in Rössler; and under mean-field diffusive coupling, higher-order interactions generally favor synchronization, particularly for Rössler oscillators, but promote chimera in the Lorenz system for the intermediate range of its strengths. >>

<< ️Overall, (AA) results demonstrate that higher-order interactions can significantly modulate, promote, or suppress chimera states depending on the coupling mechanism and oscillator dynamics. >>

Ashwathi Poolamanna, Medha Bhindwar, Chandrakala Meena. Chimera States in Wheel Networks. arXiv: 2601.01411v1 [nlin.CD]. Jan 4, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01411

Also: chimera, network, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, chimera, network, transitions

# gst: noise enables conditional recovery from collapse.

<< ️(AA) report a paradoxical phenomenon where stochasticity reverses deterministic collapse in threshold-activated systems. By using a hybrid logistic-sigmoidal map, (They) show that weak noise alters phase-space topology, enabling probabilistic recovery from extinction. Lyapunov and quasipotential analyses reveal noise-induced metastability and stochastic robustness absent in deterministic frameworks. These results suggest that environmental variability can stabilize nonlinear systems, offering a counternarrative to classical extinction theory. >>

Vinesh Vijayan, B. Priyadharshini, R. Sathish Kumar, G. Janaki. Noise enables conditional recovery from collapse: Probabilistic persistence in threshold-activated systems. Phys. Rev. E 112, 064212. Dec 19, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/xgq1-nnqb

Also:  Vinesh Vijayan, et al. Noise reinstates collapsed populations; stochastic reversal of deterministic extinction. arXiv: 2507.03954v1 [q-bio.PE]. Jul 5, 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03954   https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2025/07/gst-noise-reinstates-collapsed.html

Also: chaos, noise, weak, disorder & fluctuations, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, chaos, chaotic systems, noise, weakness, disorder,  fluctuations, tipping point, transitions, stochasticity, stochastic reversal, stochastic rescue. 

# gst: chaos and regularity in an anisotropic soft squircle billiard.

<< ️A hard-wall billiard is a mathematical model describing the confinement of a free particle that collides specularly and instantaneously with boundaries and discontinuities. Soft billiards are a generalization that includes a smooth boundary whose dynamics are governed by Hamiltonian equations and overcome overly simplistic representations. >>

<< ️(AA) study the dynamical features of an anisotropic soft-wall squircle billiard. This curve is a geometric figure that seamlessly blends the angularity of a square with the smooth curves of a circle. (They) characterize the billiard's emerging trajectories, exhibiting the onset of chaos and its alternation with regularity in the parameter space. (They) characterize the transition to chaos and the stabilization of the dynamics by revealing the nonlinearity of the parameters (squareness, ellipticity, and hardness) via the computation of Poincaré surfaces of section and the Lyapunov exponent across the parameter space. (They) expect (Their) work to introduce a valuable tool to increase understanding of the onset of chaos in soft billiards. >>

A. González Andrade, H. N. Núñez-Yépez, M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani. Chaos and regularity in an anisotropic soft squircle billiard. Phys. Rev. E 112, 064213. Dec 22, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/4xhm-r64f

arXiv: 2504.20270v2 [nlin.CD]. 28 Apr 2025

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20270

Also: chaos, billiard, particle, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, chaos, billiard, hard-wall billiards, soft billiards, particles, transitions.

# gst: ambiguous signals and efficient codes.

<< In many biological networks the responses of individual elements are ambiguous. (AA) consider a scenario in which many sensors respond to a shared signal, each with limited information capacity, and ask that the outputs together convey as much information as possible about an underlying relevant variable. In a low noise limit where can make analytic progress, (They) show that individually ambiguous responses optimize overall information transmission. >>

Marianne Bauer, William Bialek. Ambiguous signals and efficient codes. arXiv: 2512.23531v1 [physics.bio-ph]. Dec 29, 2025. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23531

Also: network, uncertainty, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, networks, uncertainty, noise, ambiguity, ambiguous encodings, mixed selectivity, optimization, signal-to-noise ratio. 

#gst: intermittent motility of a synthetic active particle in changing environments.

<< ️(AA) experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. >>

<< ️Driven by a topologically pumping dual-frequency waveform, the droplets exhibit alternating active (walking) and dormant (bouncing) phases, producing intermittent azimuthal motion. Tracking individual droplets reveals pseudolaminar chaotic dynamics in the time series of particle's angular position, characterized by laminar plateaus that are interrupted by short irregular bursts of activity. >>

<< ️Increasing the driving amplitude induces a qualitative change in the active particle's intermittent dynamics, arising from a symmetry-breaking transition in its Faraday-wave field environment: continuous SO(2)-symmetric "channelling" waves give way to discrete "trapping" patterns. >>

<< ️These findings demonstrate how environmental symmetry and spatiotemporal structure modulate motility and intermittency in synthetic active matter. >>

Rudra Sekhri, Rahil N. Valani, Tapio Simula. Intermittent Motility of a Synthetic Active Particle in Changing Environments. arXiv: 2512.16135v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Dec 18, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16135 

Also: drop, droplet, droploid, intermittency, behav, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, active matter, drops, droplets, droploids, intermittency, behavior, active walking phase, dormant bouncing phase,  trapping patterns.