Quasiperiodic Graphs: Structural Design, Scaling and Entropic Properties

Author(s): Luque, B.; Ballesteros, F. J.; Nunez, A. M.; et al.

Source: JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCE  Volume: 23   Issue: 2   Pages: 335-342   DOI: 10.1007/s00332-012-9153-2   Published: APR 2013

A novel class of graphs, here named quasiperiodic, are constructed via application of the Horizontal Visibility algorithm to the time series generated along the quasiperiodic route to chaos. We show how the hierarchy of mode-locked regions represented by the Farey tree is inherited by their associated graphs. We are able to establish, via Renormalization Group (RG) theory, the architecture of the quasiperiodic graphs produced by irrational winding numbers with pure periodic continued fraction. Finally, we demonstrate that the RG fixed-point degree distributions are recovered via optimization of a suitably defined graph entropy.