Physica D 127 (1999) 48–60
Nonlinear dynamics, delay times, and embedding windows
H.S. Kim
1, a
, R. Eykholt
b,∗
, J.D. Salas
c
a
Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
b
Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
c
Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Received 11 September 1996; received in revised form 10 January 1998; accepted 12 August 1998
Communicated by A.M. Albano
Abstract
In order to construct an embedding of a nonlinear time series, one must choose an appropriate delay time τ
d
. Often, τ
d
is
estimated using the autocorrelation function; however, this does not treat the nonlinearity appropriately, and it may yield an
incorrect value for τ
d
. On the other hand, the correct value of τ
d
can be found from the mutual information, but this process is
rather cumbersome computationally. Here, we suggest a simpler method for estimating τ
d
using the correlation integral. We
call this the C–C method, and we test it on several nonlinear time series, obtaining estimates of τ
d
in agreement with those
obtained using the mutual information. Furthermore, some researchers have suggested that one should not choose a fixed
delay time τ
d
, independent of the embedding dimension m, but, rather, one should choose an appropriate value for the delay
time window τ
w
= (m −1)τ , which is the total time spanned by the components of each embedded point. Unfortunately, τ
w
cannot be estimated using the autocorrelation function or the mutual information, and no standard procedure for estimating
τ
w
has emerged. However, we show that the C–C method can also be used to estimate τ
w
. Basically τ
w
is the optimal time
for independence of the data, while τ
d
is the first locally optimal time. As tests, we apply the C–C method to the Lorenz
system, a three-dimensional irrational torus, the Rossler system, and the Rabinovich–Fabrikant system. We also demonstrate
the robustness of this method to the presence of noise.
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Keywords: Delay time; Correlation integral; Embedding; Time series
PACS: 05.45. + b;47.52. + j
1. Introduction
Analysis of chaotic time series is common in many fields of science and engineering, and the method of delays
has become popular for attractor reconstruction from scalar time series. From the attractor dynamics, one can
estimate the correlation dimension and other quantities to see whether the scalar time series is chaotic or stochastic.
Therefore, attractor reconstruction is the first stage in chaotic time series analyses. Since the choice of the delay
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1
Present Address: Department of Construction Engineering, Sun Moon University, Korea
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