2002/04/02 by Werner Ebeling, Thorsten Poeschel, Karl-Friedrich Albrecht
Physics and Astronomy · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #cond-mat.stat-mech #q-bio.GN
published as Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 5, 51 (1995) · 9 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2002/04/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We investigate correlations in information carriers, e.g. texts and pieces of music, which are represented by strings of letters. For information carrying strings generated by one source (i.e. a novel or a piece of music) we find correlations on many length scales. The word distribution, the higher order entropies and the transinformation are calculated. The analogy to strings generated through symbolic dynamics by nonlinear systems in critical states is discussed.