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Analyzing Antagonism in Hypernetworks
Dnr:

NAISS 2026/4-696

Type:

NAISS Small

Principal Investigator:

Philipp Grünter

Affiliation:

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

Start Date:

2026-04-10

End Date:

2026-08-01

Primary Classification:

20202: Control Engineering

Allocation

Abstract

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.