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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; published in the issue dated 31 January 1983

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.