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Huygens synchronisation of three clocks equidistant from each other
In this paper we study the synchronisation of three identical oscillators,
i.e., clocks, hanging from the same hard support. We consider the case where
each clock interacts with the other two clocks. The synchronisation is attained
through the exchange of small impacts between each pair of oscillators. The
fundamental result of this article is that the final locked state is at phase
difference of ((2{\pi})/3) from successive clocks (clockwise or
counter-clockwise). Moreover, the locked states attract a set whose closure is
the global set of initial conditions. The methodology of our analysis consists
in the construction a model, which is a non-linear discrete dynamical system,
i.e. a non-linear difference equation. The results are extendable to any set of
three oscillators under mutual symmetric interaction, despite the particular
models of the oscillators
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