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Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 346 - 349 (1983)

Characterization of Strange Attractors

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Peter Grassberger * and Itamar Procaccia
Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Received 7 September 1982

A new measure of strange attractors is introduced which offers a practical algorithm to determine their character from the time series of a single observable. The relation of this new measure to fractal dimension and information-theoretic entropy is discussed.


©1983 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.346
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.346
PACS: 47.25.-c, 52.35.Ra

* Permanent address: Physics Department, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, West Germany.

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