Published July 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Orbits' statistics in chaotic dynamical systems

Creators

  • 1. Steklov Mathematical Institute, 8, Gubkina Street, 119991, Moscow GSP-1 (Russian Federation)

Description

This paper shows how the measurement of the stochasticity degree of a finite sequence of real numbers, published by Kolmogorov in Italian in a journal of insurances' statistics, can be usefully applied to measure the objective stochasticity degree of sequences, originating from dynamical systems theory and from number theory. Namely, whenever the value of Kolmogorov's stochasticity parameter of a given sequence of numbers is too small (or too big), one may conclude that the conjecture describing this sequence as a sample of independent values of a random variables is highly improbable. Kolmogorov used this strategy fighting (in a paper in 'Doklady', 1940) against Lysenko, who had tried to disprove the classical genetics' law of Mendel experimentally. Calculating his stochasticity parameter value for the numbers from Lysenko's experiment reports, Kolmogorov deduced, that, while these numbers were different from the exact fulfilment of Mendel's 3 : 1 law, any smaller deviation would be a manifestation of the report's number falsification. The calculation of the values of the stochasticity parameter would be useful for many other generators of pseudorandom numbers and for many other chaotically looking statistics, including even the prime numbers distribution (discussed in this paper as an example). (open problem)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/21/7/T02

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0951-7715/21/7/T02;
PII
S0951-7715(08)70244-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nonlinearity (Print)
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. T109-T112
ISSN
0951-7715

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44095821
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
CHAOS THEORY; CHAPMAN-KOLMOGOROV EQUATION; DYNAMICS; GENETICS; ORBITS; RANDOMNESS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
Descriptors DEC
BIOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS