Figure 3
Distance from a swarm’s center versus coupling for agents with the lowest degree in their network. (a) Power-law network where simulation-determined values are plotted with red circles and squares for two agents that are directly connected and ejected at the first shedding transition. Mean-field predictions from solving Eqs.(3a–3b) are drawn for each node with solid and dashed lines: stable (red) and unstable (blue). The inlet panel shows the same plot zoomed-in to the bifurcation. (b) Similar plot for a Waxman network topology, where only one agent is shed. Other model parameters are identical to Fig. 1.
