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48 results for statistical fluctuations

We study the nature of fluctuations in variety of price indices involving companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The fluctuations at multiple scales are extracted through the use of wavelets belonging to Daubechies basis. The fact that these basis sets satisfy vanishing moments conditions makes them ideal to …

2012-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows Gaussian fluctuations in eigenvalue statistics of random hyperbolic surfaces.

problem Understanding fluctuations in Laplace eigenvalues of random hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyzing fluctuations of linear statistics of Laplace eigenvalues over moduli space of surfaces of large genus.
result The distribution of linear statistics tends to a Gaussian as the genus of surfaces increases.

The statistical properties of a stochastic process may be described (1)by the expectation values of the observables, (2)by the probability distribution functions or (3)by probability measures on path space. Here an analysis of level (3) is carried out for market fluctuation processes. Gibbs measures and chains with com…

2001-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We constructed an analog electrical circuit which generates fluctuations in which probability density function has power law tails. In the circuit fluctuations with an arbitrary exponent of the power law can be obtained by adjusting the resistance. With this low cost circuit the random fluctuations which have the simil…

2001-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Employing a recent technique which allows the representation of nonstationary data by means of a juxtaposition of locally stationary patches of different length, we introduce a comprehensive analysis of the key observables in a financial market: the trading volume and the price fluctuations. From the segmentation proce…

2013-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

In order to emphasize cross-correlations for fluctuations in major market places, series of up and down spins are built from financial data. Patterns frequencies are measured, and statistical tests performed. Strong cross-correlations are emphasized, proving that market moves are collective behaviors.

2000-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze the statistics of daily price change of stock market in the framework of a statistical physics model for the collective fluctuation of stock portfolio. In this model the time series of price changes are coded into the sequences of up and down spins, and the Hamiltonian of the system is expressed by spin-spin…

2001-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes fluctuations in ensemble models in high-dimensional settings.

problem Understanding statistical fluctuations in ensemble models in high-dimensional settings.
method Develops a rigorous theory for the study of fluctuations in ensemble of generalised linear models.
result Provides a complete description of the asymptotic joint distribution of the empirical risk minimizer for convex losses in high-dimensional settings.

Predicts coherence from quantum heat engine noise using machine learning.

problem Predicting coherence in quantum heat engines from nonequilibrium fluctuations.
method Developed a machine learning protocol using K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) model.
result Machine learning successfully predicts coherence from quantum heat engine noise.

Bayesian models' singular fluctuation is shown to be akin to specific heat, influencing model complexity and generalization.

problem Understanding the thermodynamic interpretation of singular fluctuation in Bayesian models.
method Showed singular fluctuation as the curvature of Bayesian free energy and variance of log-likelihood observable under a Gibbs posterior.
result Singular fluctuation is the statistical analogue of specific heat, controlling model complexity and generalization.

I review few conceptual steps in analytic description of topological interactions, which constitute the basis of a new interdisciplinary branch in mathematical physics, "Statistical Topology", emerged at the edge of topology and statistical physics of fluctuating non-phantom rope-like objects. This new branch is called…

2016-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The financial market and turbulence have been broadly compared on account of the same quantitative methods and several common stylized facts they shared. In this paper, the She-Leveque (SL) hierarchy, proposed to explain the anomalous scaling exponents deviated from Kolmogorov monofractal scaling of the velocity fluctu…

2012-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We examine the out-of-equilibrium phase reported by Plerou {\it et. al.} in Nature, {\bf 421}, 130 (2003) using the data of the New York stock market (NYSE) between the years 2001 --2002. We find that the observed two phase phenomenon is an artifact of the definition of the control parameter coupled with the nature of …

2005-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on price fluctuations in NFT market, showing heavy-tailed distributions and long-range memory.

problem Characterizing price fluctuations in NFT market.
method Analysis of capitalization, floor price, transactions, inter-transaction times, and volume value of NFTs.
result NFT market exhibits heavy-tailed probability distribution functions, well described by stretched exponentials, with long-range memory.

We compute the analytic expression of the probability distributions F{FTSE100,+} and F{FTSE100,-} of the normalized positive and negative FTSE100 (UK) index daily returns r(t). Furthermore, we define the alpha re-scaled FTSE100 daily index positive returns r(t)^alpha and negative returns (-r(t))^alpha that we call, aft…

2010-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In this manuscript we analyse the leading statistical properties of fluctuations of (log) 3-month US Treasury bill quotation in the secondary market, namely: probability density function, autocorrelation, absolute values autocorrelation, and absolute values persistency. We verify that this financial instrument, in spit…

2007-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

CNN accurately reconstructs lattice topology with strong thermal fluctuations.

problem Reconstructing lattice topology with strong thermal fluctuations and unbalanced data.
method Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) mapping local magnetic moments to coupling probabilities.
result CNN accurately reconstructs lattice topology where thermal fluctuations dominate.

The study reveals the hierarchical structure of the international FOREX market using currency fluctuation distribution similarities.

problem Understanding the hierarchical structure of the international FOREX market.
method Using Jensen-Shannon divergence to quantify the similarity between normalized logarithmic return distributions of currencies.
result Clusters of currencies are consistent with the nature of underlying economies but diverge during crises.

In terms of the stock exchange returns, we compute the analytic expression of the probability distributions F{DAX,+} and F{DAX,-} of the normalized positive and negative DAX (Germany) index daily returns r(t). Furthermore, we define the alpha re-scaled DAX daily index positive returns r(t)^alpha and negative returns (-…

2010-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Scaling properties in financial fluctuations are reviewed from the standpoint of statistical physics. We firstly show theoretically that the balance of demand and supply enhances fluctuations due to the underlying phase transition mechanism. By analyzing tick data of yen-dollar exchange rates we confirm two fractal pro…

2000-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We present cross and time series analysis of price fluctuations in the U.S. Treasury fixed income market. By means of techniques borrowed from statistical physics we show that the correlation among bonds depends strongly on the maturity and bonds' price increments do not fulfill the random walk hyphoteses.

2000-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows energy levels on hyperbolic surfaces follow GOE fluctuations.

problem Understanding energy level fluctuations on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analysis of Laplace eigenvalues on hyperbolic surfaces, using GOE random matrix theory.
result Energy variance on typical hyperbolic surfaces closely matches GOE fluctuations.

The paper introduces new geometric methods to analyze radar electromagnetic wave statistics.

problem Analyzing spatio-temporal and polarimetric fluctuations of radar electromagnetic waves.
method Using statistical mechanics and Information Geometry, the paper defines a Fréchet barycentre and maximum entropy density for radar measurements.
result New tools for describing radar electromagnetic wave fluctuations, including a distance on covariance matrices.

We compute the analytic expression of the probability distributions F{AEX,+} and F{AEX,-} of the normalized positive and negative AEX (Netherlands) index daily returns r(t). Furthermore, we define the αre-scaled AEX daily index positive returns r(t)^αand negative returns (-r(t))^αthat we call, after normalization, the …

2010-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study smooth linear statistics on random covers of hyperbolic surfaces, showing central limit and variance results.

problem Analyzing fluctuations and energy variance of random covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces.
method Examining fluctuations in a small energy window around a fixed energy level, considering the variance of a typical surface, using a double limit where nn and LL go to infinity.
result Distribution of fluctuations tends to a Gaussian with variance of GOE/GUE, and energy variance of a typical random nn-cover is that of GOE/GUE.

Unified thermodynamic approach to Transformer attention dynamics.

problem Understanding the statistical mechanics of Transformer attention.
method Constructing a Lagrangian on the information manifold to analyze attention dynamics.
result Establishes a formal correspondence between scaled dot-product attention and canonical ensemble statistics.

In a recent Nature paper, Gabaix et al. \cite{Gabaix03} presented a theory to explain the power law tail of price fluctuations. The main points of their theory are that volume fluctuations, which have a power law tail with exponent roughly -1.5, are modulated by the average market impact function, which describes the r…

2003-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze the daily stock data of the Nasdaq Composite index in the 22-year period 1992-2013 and identify market states as clusters of correlation matrices with similar correlation structures. We investigate the stability of the correlation structure of each state by estimating the statistical fluctuations of correlat…

2014-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We select n stocks traded in the New York Stock Exchange and we form a statistical ensemble of daily stock returns for each of the k trading days of our database from the stock price time series. We analyze each ensemble of stock returns by extracting its first four central moments. We observe that these moments are fl…

1999-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce thermodynamic response functions for singular Bayesian models.

problem Singular Bayesian models violate regular asymptotics due to non-identifiability and degenerate Fisher geometry.
method Posterior tempering induces thermodynamic response functions, linking WAIC, WBIC, and singular fluctuation.
result WAIC, WBIC, and singular fluctuation are unified within a thermodynamic response framework.

This work analyzes how transformers learn common linear regression tasks.

problem Understanding how in-context learning operates in real-world applications with common task structures.
method Analyzing a linear attention model trained on low-rank regression tasks.
result Statistical fluctuations in finite pre-training data induce an implicit regularization, leading to a sharp phase transition in generalization error.

The notion of the stationary equilibrium ensemble has played a central role in statistical mechanics. In machine learning as well, training serves as generalized equilibration that drives the probability distribution of model parameters toward stationarity. Here, we derive stationary fluctuation-dissipation relations t…

2018-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New dynamics for SGD in small learning rate regime.

problem Improving stochastic gradient descent in small learning rate regime.
method Introducing stochastic modified flows and distribution dependent stochastic modified flows.
result Captures fluctuating dynamics of SGD in small learning rate - infinite width scaling regime.
Research in Econophysicscond-mat.stat-mech

This article is written for the online newspaper "The Photon" published by the Department of Physics, University of Maryland. The article describes econophysics research done in the group of Victor Yakovenko. It briefly surveys the subjects "Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth" and "Probability Distribut…

2003-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that time-dependent fluctuations {Δx}\{Δx\} in foreign exchange rates are accurately described by a random walk in a complex plane that is demarcated into the gain (+) and loss (-) sectors. {Δx}\{Δx\} is the outcome of NN random steps from the origin and Δx|Δx| is the square of the Euclidean distance of the final …

2003-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗