Conditional entropy of ordinal patterns

In this paper we investigate a quantity called conditional entropy of ordinal patterns, akin to the permutation entropy. The conditional entropy of ordinal patterns describes the average diversity of the ordinal patterns succeeding a given ordinal pattern. We observe that this quantity provides a good estimation of the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy in many cases. In particular, the conditional entropy of ordinal patterns of a finite order coincides with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for periodic dynamics and for Markov shifts over a binary alphabet. Finally, the conditional entropy of ordinal patterns is computationally simple and thus can be well applied to real-world data

Thermodynamic formalism for field driven Lorentz gases

We analytically determine the dynamical properties of two dimensional field driven Lorentz gases within the thermodynamic formalism. For dilute gases subjected to an iso-kinetic thermostat, we calculate the topological pressure as a function of a temperature-like parameter \ba up to second order in the strength of the applied field. The Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and the topological entropy can be extracted from a dynamical entropy defined as a Legendre transform of the topological pressure. Our calculations of the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy exactly agree with previous calculations based on a Lorentz-Boltzmann equation approach. We give analytic results for the topological entropy and calculate the dimension spectrum from the dynamical entropy function.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure

Comment on `Universal relation between the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and the thermodynamic entropy in simple liquids'

The intriguing relations between Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and self diffusion coefficients and the excess (thermodynamic) entropy found by Dzugutov and collaborators do not appear to hold for hard sphere and hard disks systems.Comment: 1 page revte

Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and black holes

It is shown that stringy matter near the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole exhibits chaotic behavior (the spreading effect) which can be characterized by the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy. It is found that the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a spreading string equals to the half of the inverse gravitational radius of the black hole. But the KS entropy is the same for all objects collapsing into the black hole. The nature of this universality is that the KS entropy possesses the main property of temperature: it is the same for all bodies in thermal equilibrium with the black hole. The Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy measures the rate at which information about the string is lost as it spreads over the horizon. It is argued that it is the maximum rate allowed by quantum theory. A possible relation between the Kolmogorov-Sinai and Bekenstein-Hawking entropies is discussed.Comment: 10 pages, no figures; this is an extended version of my paper arXiv:0711.313