TY - JOUR A1 - Ahlers, Volker A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij T1 - Critical Properties of the Synchronization Transition in Space-Time Chaos N2 - We study two coupled spatially extended dynamical systems which exhibit space-time chaos. The transition to the synchronized state is treated as a nonequilibrium phase transition, where the average synchronization error is the order parameter. The transition in one-dimensional systems is found to be generically in the universality class of the Kardar- Parisi-Zhang equation with a growth-limiting term ("bounded KPZ"). For systems with very strong nonlinearities in the local dynamics, however, the transition is found to be in the universality class of directed percolation. Y1 - 2002 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16789 ER -