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Abstract

Methods connecting dynamical systems and graph theory have attracted increasing interest in the past few years, with applications ranging from a detailed comparison of different kinds of dynamics to the characterisation of empirical data. Here we investigate the effects of the (multi)fractal properties of a time signal, common in sequences arising from chaotic or strange attractors, on the topology of a suitably projected network. Relying on the box counting formalism, we map boxes into the nodes of a network and establish analytic expressions connecting the natural measure of a box with its degree in the graph representation. We single out the conditions yielding to the emergence of a scale-free topology, and validate our findings with extensive numerical simulations.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright American Physical Society, 2017
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Departments:	School of Science & Technology > Mathematics
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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