Institute of Theoretical Physics, Humboldt University, Invalidenstr. 42, D-O-1040, Berlin, Germany
Faculté des Sciences and Center for Nonlinear Phenomena, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, C.P. 231, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgium
Abstract:
Symbolic sequences generated by nonlinear dynamics, a German text and a piece of classical music are investigated. The higher order block entropies and the mean uncertainty are calculated using both analytical and numerical methods. The existence of weak long memory effects and the corresponding scaling of the entropies are explored. The hypothesis is developed that for language-like processes the block entropies increase in a sublinear way with the word length n, i.e. Hnanμ with exponents in the range μ 1/4−1/2. Correspondingly the effective number of words follows a stretched exponential law.