Opportunity for Regulating the Collective Effect of Random Expansion with Manifestations of Finite Size Effects in a Moderate Number of Finite Systems

TL;DR

This computational study explores how ambient condition changes can regulate collective patterns in finite discrete systems with random expansion, highlighting finite size effects and local information transmission mechanisms.

Contribution

It identifies general requirements for controlling collective network patterns through ambient conditions in finite systems with local rules.

Findings

Finite size effects influence collective pattern formation.

Ambient parameter changes can regulate collective outcomes.

Local information transmission mechanisms are key to pattern control.

Abstract

One reports computational study revealing a set of general requirements, fulfilling of which would allow employing changes in ambient conditions to regulate accomplishing the collective outcome of emerging active network patterns in an ensemble of a moderate number of finite discrete systems. The patterns within all these component systems emerge out of random expansion process governed by certain local rule. The systems modeled are of the same type but different in details, finite discrete spatial domains of the expansion within the systems are equivalent regular hexagonal arrays. The way in which elements of a component system function in the local information transmission allows dividing them into two classes. One class is represented by zero-dimensional entities coupled into pairs identified at the array sites being nearest neighbors. The pairs preserve their orientation in the space while experiencing conditional hopping to positions close by and transferring certain information portions. Messenger particles hopping to signal the pairs for the conditional jumping constitute the other class. Contribution from the hopping pairs results in finite size effects being specific feature of accomplishing the mean expected network pattern representing the collective outcome. It is shown how manifestations of the finite size effects allow using changes in parameters of the model ambient conditions of the ensemble evolution to regulate accomplishing the collective outcome representation.