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Space-time separation plot

  While the recurrence plot shows absolute times, the space-time separation plot introduced by Provenzale et al. [41] integrates along parallels to the diagonal and thus only shows relative times. One usually draws lines of constant probability per time unit of a point to be an tex2html_wrap_inline6495-neighbor of the current point, when its time distance is tex2html_wrap_inline6775. This helps identifying temporal correlations inside the time series and is relevant to estimate a reasonable delay time, and, more importantly, the Theiler-window w in dimension and Lyapunov-analysis (see Sec. gif). Said in different words, it shows how large the temporal distance between points should be so that we can assume that they form independent samples according to the invariant measure. The corresponding routine of the TISEAN package is stp, see Fig. gif.

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Figure:   Space-time separation plot of the COtex2html_wrap_inline6701 laser data. Shown are lines of constant probability density of a point to be tex2html_wrap_inline6495-neighbor of the current point if its temporal distance is tex2html_wrap_inline6775. Probability densitites are 1/10 to 1 with increments of 1/10 from bottom to top. Clear correlations are visible.


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Thomas Schreiber
Wed Jan 6 15:38:27 CET 1999