Theory and applications of state-transition networks: from dynamical systems to experimental time series

Abstract

Complex time series are increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. This project aims to advance the study of complex dynamics in such time series, specifically focusing on the application of state-transition networks (STNs) [Sándor et al. (2021)] in interdisciplinary problems spanning physics, biology, and financial markets.

The objectives are twofold: developing a theoretical framework for STNs to enhance our understanding of their properties, relationships with other encoding frameworks and measures of chaos theory, and their potential in detecting critical transitions; and expanding interdisciplinary applications by extending the methodology to nonstationary time series, nonautonomous dynamical systems, and exploring their relevance in areas such as functional brain networks, financial time series, and behavior-related experiments. By achieving these goals, this research contributes to the field of physics by providing insights into complex dynamics and utilizing STNs as a powerful computational tool in various time series datasets.

Objectives

Team members

Principal Investigator: Bulcsú Sándor

Senior Researchers: Zsolt Lázár, Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

Postdocs: Botond Tyukodi, Botond Molnár

PhD Student: András Rusu

Master student: Tamás András

Aknowledgement

This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS - UEFISCDI, project number PN-IV-P2-2.1-TE-2023-1548 within PNCDI IV.

References

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