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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 10: Nonlinear Dynamics I
DY 10.7: Talk
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 15:30–15:45, H46
Recurrence networks: A novel paradigm for nonlinear time series analysis — •Reik V. Donner1,2,3, Yong Zou3, Jonathan F. Donges3,4, Norbert Marwan3, and Jürgen Kurths3,4 — 1Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany — 2Institute for Transport and Economics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany — 3Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany — 4Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
We present a novel approach for analysing structural properties of dynamical systems based on time series. Starting from the concept of recurrences in phase space, the recurrence matrix of a time series is interpreted as the adjacency matrix of an associated complex network which links different points in time if the evolution of the considered states is very similar. A critical comparison of these recurrence networks with similar existing techniques is presented, revealing strong conceptual benefits of the new approach which can be considered as a unifying framework for transforming time series into complex networks that also includes other methods as special cases.
We demonstrate the presence of fundamental relationships between the topological properties of recurrence networks and the statistical properties of the phase space density of the underlying dynamical system. Hence, the network description yields new quantitative characteristics of the dynamical complexity of a time series, which substantially complement existing measures of recurrence quantification analysis.