Synchronization Conditions of a Mixed Kuramoto Ensemble in Attractive and Repulsive Couplings

We study the emergent dynamics of a mixed Kuramoto ensemble in the presence of both attractive and repulsive coupling strengths. To be precise, we consider coupled Kuramoto-type systems consisting of two ensembles in which the oscillators in the same group interact attractively with a positive intra-group coupling strength, whereas the oscillators in the different group communicate repulsively with a negative inter-group coupling strength. For the modeling perspective of the Kuramoto model (KM for brevity), two types of systems are treated in this paper: an attractive–repulsive inertial KM–KM and an attractive–repulsive KM–KM. For these two models, we provide sufficient frameworks leading to complete bi-polar synchronization in which asymptotic configuration tends to a bi-polar state. Our estimates mainly rely on the gradient-like flow formulation and the energy estimate.