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Concept
Recurrence plot
Summary
In descriptive statistics and chaos theory, a recurrence plot (RP) is a plot showing, for each moment in time, the times at which the state of a dynamical system returns to the previous state at ,
i.e., when the phase space trajectory visits roughly the same area in the phase space as at time . In other words, it is a plot of
showing on a horizontal axis and on a vertical axis, where is the state of the system (or its phase space trajectory).
Natural processes can have a distinct recurrent behaviour, e.g. periodicities (as seasonal or Milankovich cycles), but also irregular cyclicities (as El Niño Southern Oscillation, heart beat intervals). Moreover, the recurrence of states, in the meaning that states are again arbitrarily close after some time of divergence, is a fundamental property of deterministic dynamical systems and is typical for nonlinear or chaotic systems (cf. Poincaré recurrence theorem). The recurrence of states in nature has been known for a long time and has also been discussed in early work (e.g. Henri Poincaré 1890).
One way to visualize the recurring nature of states by their trajectory through a phase space is the recurrence plot, introduced by Eckmann et al. (1987). Often, the phase space does not have a low enough dimension (two or three) to be pictured, since higher-dimensional phase spaces can only be visualized by projection into the two or three-dimensional sub-spaces. However, making a recurrence plot enables us to investigate certain aspects of the m-dimensional phase space trajectory through a two-dimensional representation.
At a recurrence the trajectory returns to a location in phase space it has visited before up to a small error (i.e., the system returns to a state that it has before).
The recurrence plot represents the collection of pairs of times such recurrences, i.e., the set of with , with and discrete points of time and the state of the system at time (location of the trajectory at time ).
Mathematically, this can be expressed by the binary recurrence matrix
where is a norm and the recurrence threshold.
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