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The aim of this review article is to give a comprehensive description of the scaling properties detected for the distribution of cosmic structures. Due to the great variety of statistical methods to describe the large-scale structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Borgani

Complexity measures are designed to capture complex behavior and quantify *how* complex, according to that measure, that particular behavior is. It can be expected that different complexity measures from possibly entirely different fields…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

Fractals, 1/f noise, Zipf's law, and the occurrence of large catastrophic events are typical ubiquitous general empirical observations across the individual sciences which cannot be understood within the set of references developed within…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-21 Yanguang Chen

Fractals represent one of the fundamental manifestations of complexity, and fractal networks serve as tools for characterizing and investigating the fractal structures and properties of large-scale systems. Higher-order networks have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Lin Qi , Jiaxin Zhang

Fractal geometry, defined by self-similar patterns across scales, is crucial for understanding natural structures. This work addresses the fractal inverse problem, which involves extracting fractal codes from images to explain these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Adarsh Djeacoumar , Felix Mujkanovic , Hans-Peter Seidel , Thomas Leimkühler

Multifractal scaling (MFS) refers to structures that can be described as a collection of interwoven fractal subsets which exhibit power-law spatial scaling behavior with a range of scaling exponents (concentration, or singularity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David W. Chappell , John Scalo

This paper provides a summary of the fractal calculus framework. It presents higher-order homogeneous and nonhomogeneous linear fractal differential equations with $\alpha$-order. Solutions for these equations with constant coefficients are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh , Claude Depollier , Diana Pham

We introduce the notion of fractal index associated with the universal class $h$ of particles or quasiparticles, termed fractons, which obey specific fractal statistics. A connection between fractons and conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Wellington da Cruz , Rosevaldo de Oliveira

The curves of scaling behavior is a significant concept in fractal dimension analysis of complex systems. However, the underlying rationale of this kind of curves for fractal cities is not yet clear. The aim of this paper is at researching…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-28 Yanguang Chen

We use the Heat Kernel method to calculate the Entanglement Entropy for a given entangling region on a fractal. The leading divergent term of the entropy is obtained as a function of the fractal dimension as well as the walk dimension. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Amin Faraji Astaneh

Shape is one of the most important visual attributes to characterize objects, playing a important role in pattern recognition. There are various approaches to extract relevant information of a shape. An approach widely used in shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-17 André Ricardo Backes , Odemir Martinez Bruno

Quantitative analysis of the structure of star clusters is crucial for understanding their formation and evolution. In this article, we explore the application of fractal dimension analysis to study the evolution of star clusters, also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 N. Ussipov , A. Akhmetali , M. Zaidyn , A. Akniyazova , A. Sakan , M. Kalambay , B. Shukirgaliyev

The so-called partition function is a sample moment statistic based on blocks of data and it is often used in the context of multifractal processes. It will be shown that its behaviour is strongly influenced by the tail of the distribution…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-02 Danijel Grahovac , Mofei Jia , Nikolai N. Leonenko , Emanuele Taufer

We present a formalism that leads very naturally to a hierarchical description of the different contrast structures in images, providing precise definitions of sharp edges and other texture components. Within this formalism, we achieve a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Turiel , N. Parga

A type of fractal dimension definition is based on the generalized entropy function. Both entropy and fractal dimension can be employed to characterize complex spatial systems such as cities and regions. Despite the inherent connect between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Yanguang Chen , Linshan Huang

A stochastic model relating the parameters of astrophysical structures to the parameters of their granular components is applied to the formation of hierarchical, large-scale structures from galaxies assumed as point-like objects. If the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-20 S. Capozziello , S. Funkhouser

Accurate segmentation of long and thin tubular structures is required in a wide variety of areas such as biology, medicine, and remote sensing. The complex topology and geometry of such structures often pose significant technical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Jiaxing Huang , Yanfeng Zhou , Yaoru Luo , Guole Liu , Heng Guo , Ge Yang

Clouds in observations are fractals: they show self-similarity across scales ranging from one to 1000 km. This includes individual storms and large-scale cloud structures typical of organised convection. It is not known whether global…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Hannah M. Christensen , Oliver G. A. Driver

We apply fractal analysis methods to investigate the scaling properties in the Abell and ACO catalogs of rich galaxy clusters. We also discuss different technical aspects of the method when applied to data sets with small number of points…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Borgani , V. J. Martinez , M. A. Perez , R. Valdarnini

A fractal surface is a set which is a graph of a bivariate continuous function. In the construction of fractal surfaces using IFS, vertical scaling factors in IFS are important one which characterizes a fractal feature of surfaces…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Chol-Hui Yun , Hui-Chol Choi , Hyong-Chol O