Gutin, G;
Mansour, T;
Severini, S;
(2011)
A characterization of horizontal visibility graphs and combinatorics on words.
PHYSICA A
, 390
(12)
2421 - 2428.
10.1016/j.physa.2011.02.031.
Abstract
A Horizontal Visibility Graph (HVG) is defined in association with an ordered set of non-negative reals. HVGs realize a methodology in the analysis of time series, their degree distribution being a good discriminator between randomness and chaos Luque et al. [B. Luque, L. Lacasa, F. Ballesteros, J. Luque, Horizontal visibility graphs: exact results for random time series, Phys. Rev. E 80 (2009), 046103]. We prove that a graph is an HVG if and only if it is outerplanar and has a Hamilton path. Therefore, an HVG is a noncrossing graph, as defined in algebraic combinatorics Flajolet and Noy [P. Flajolet, M. Noy, Analytic combinatorics of noncrossing configurations, Discrete Math., 204 (1999) 203-229]. Our characterization of HVGs implies a linear time recognition algorithm. Treating ordered sets as words, we characterize subfamilies of HVGs highlighting various connections with combinatorial statistics and introducing the notion of a visible pair. With this technique, we determine asymptotically the average number of edges of HVGs. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A characterization of horizontal visibility graphs and combinatorics on words |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physa.2011.02.031 |
| Keywords: | Networks, Time series, OUTERPLANAR GRAPHS, TIME |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/404743 |
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