title: Detecting local synchronization in coupled chaotic systems.
abstract: We introduce a technique to detect and quantify local functional dependencies between coupled chaotic systems. The method estimates the fraction of locally synchronized configurations, in a pair of signals with an arbitrary state of global synchronization. Application to a pair of interacting Rössler oscillators shows that our method is able to quantify the number of dynamical configurations where a local prediction task is possible, as well as in the absence of global synchronization features.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pastur
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boccaletti
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Ramazza