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Largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE)

Purpose
Description
Macro Synopsis
Modules
Related Functions
References


Purpose

Calculate the largest Lyapunov exponent of a time series

Description

Lyapunov exponents quantify the mean rate of divergence of neighboured trajectories along various directions in phase space. For converging trajectories, the corresponding Lyapunov exponents are negative.
The Lyapunov exponents of a discrete time-series () are defined as the logarithms of the eigenvalues (denoted as e.v.) of the tangent map
with embedding dimension m and n as the number of time steps. (see Lyapunov spectrum.)

where J is the Jacobian matrix.
Time series of chaotic systems have a positive LLE. Parameters of "Largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE)" are

The result of "Largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE)" will appear in the message window.

Warning: Phase space calculations on long signals are computationally very expensive, and can lead to large response times of the program. Try to use small radii and low embedding dimensions if possible.


Macro Synopsis

LLE(x,m,M,pd);
signal x;
int m,M,pd;

Modules

Nonlinear

Related Functions

Momentary largest Lyapunov exponent, Lyapunov spectrum, Correlation dimension, Correlation integral, Pointwise correlation dimension (PD2), Pointwise correlation integral.

References

Briggs [37], Wolf et al. [38]