Abstract
Recently Stewart and Golubitsky have formulated a general approach to the study of networks of coupled cells.
Their approach depends on groupoids, graphs and `quotient networks'. We present a combinatorial
approach to coupled cell systems. While largely equivalent to that of Stewart et al.,
our approach is motivated by ideas coming from analog computers and avoids abstract algebraic formalism.
For preprint, e-mail: mf@uh.edu
Professor Mike Field
Department of Mathematics
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-3008