Statistical complexity measures as telltale of relevant scales in emergent dynamics of spatial systems

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2014.05.005MaRDI QIDQ1782952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Arbona, B. Miñano, Carles Bona, A. Plastino

Publication date 20 September 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1337

zbMATH Keywords

complexitycollective motionspatial dynamical systemsstatistical complexity measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Abstract: The definition of complexity through Statistical Complexity Measures (SCM) has recently seen major improvements. Mostly, effort is concentrated in measures on time series. We propose a SCM definition for spatial dynamical systems. Our definition is in line with the trend to combine entropy with measures of structure (such as disequilibrium). We study the behaviour of our definition against the vectorial noise model of Collective Motion. From a global perspective, we show how our SCM is minimal at both the microscale and macroscale, while it reaches a maximum at the ranges that define the mesoscale in this model. From a local perspective, the SCM is minimum both in highly ordered and chaotic areas, while it reaches a maximum at the edges between such areas. These characteristics suggest this is a good candidate for detecting the mesoscale of arbitrary dynamical systems as well as regions where the complexity is maximal in such systems.

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