Standard pairwise representations may fail to capture the complexity of observed
collective behaviors in networked systems in many real-world applications, in-
cluding ecological systems, brain cognitive processes, and social systems. This
motivates the use of hypergraph representations, which capture not only pair-
wise but also higher-order interactions between nodes. Traditionally, it is as-
sumed that these interactions are cooperative, and several measures have been
proposed to identify influential or central agents. However, in the context of so-
cial networks, antagonistic relationships between individuals may coexist with
collaborative ones.
In this thesis project, we want to understand how an-
tagonism in higher-order interactions influences collective behavior, using hypernetwork dynamics
characterized by nonlinear (sigmoidal) functions.