H² × ℝ (Thurston)

Hyperbolic layering, vertical drift
symmetrydim 36 metrics

What It Measures

Whether hierarchical depth co-varies with a linear trend.

Maps each byte triple into the Poincare disk (first two bytes) crossed with the real line (third byte). The Poincare disk distorts distances: points near the boundary are exponentially far from the center in hyperbolic terms. Data that clusters near the disk's edge has large hyperbolic variance; the depth_height_corr metric then asks whether this hierarchical depth is coupled to the linear drift.

Metrics

hyperbolic_variance

Variance of the hyperbolic distance from the disk's origin. ECG ventricular tachycardia (3.45), damped pendulum (3.35), and ECG supraventricular tachycardia (3.34) dominate. These signals oscillate between near-center and near-boundary in the Poincare disk — the heartbeat's QRS complex pushes points to the boundary, while the baseline returns them to center. Logistic period-2 scores near 0 (its two-value alternation maps to a fixed radius). The ECG dominance is notable: pathological heart rhythms explore the full radial range of the disk.

hyperbolic_step_dispersion

Mean Poincaré disk distance d(z, w) = 2·arctanh(|z − w| / |1 − z̄·w|) between consecutive points. The canonical Möbius-invariant hyperbolic metric, not a chord through the disk. Logistic Period-2 (9.43) and Period-4 (8.28) dominate because their alternating values map to widely separated disk points; Symbolic Hénon (7.73), Rule 110 (7.62), and Logistic Edge-of-Chaos (7.42) follow. Partition Function and Minkowski ?(x) (~0.005) sit near zero — these monotone number-theoretic sources trace tight neighborhoods in disk coordinates. Constants and Period-3 saturate at 0.

hyperbolic_triangle_area

Mean angle-deficit area A = π − (α + β + γ) of consecutive disk triples (p_i, p_{i+1}, p_{i+2}), computed via the hyperbolic law of cosines on side lengths. By Gauss-Bonnet on a curvature-(−1) surface, the angle deficit IS the hyperbolic area, bounded in [0, π]. Rotation-invariant. Logistic Period-4 (2.37) tops the list — its 4-cycle traces non-degenerate triangles every step — followed by Logistic Edge-of-Chaos (2.18), DNA Centromere (2.05), Beta Noise (1.99), and DNA SARS-CoV-2 (1.91). Period-2 and Period-3 collapse to 0 because their cycles produce degenerate (collinear) triangles. Distinct from hyperbolic_step_dispersion: that metric tracks how far each step jumps, while triangle area tracks how much the path bends.

depth_height_corr

Correlation between hyperbolic distance from the origin and the height coordinate. Forest fire (0.68) and humidity (0.62) have the strongest positive correlation: when they move toward the boundary (high hierarchical depth), their height increases. Wind speed (-0.79) and wave height (-0.81) have strong negative correlation: high hierarchical depth coincides with decreasing height. Intermittent silence scores -0.83, the strongest negative value — its bursts of silence (near-center) alternate with active periods (boundary) in a way that anti-correlates with the height trend.

boundary_dynamics

Rate of change of hyperbolic radius over time — how fast does the signal move toward or away from the disk boundary? BTC Close (0.14) and ETH/BTC (0.12) score highest — financial data makes rapid excursions between center and boundary. DNA and logistic period-2 score 0.0 (fixed radial position). This captures the temporal dynamics of hierarchical depth that the static hyperbolic_variance misses.

radial_temporal_memory

Autocorrelation of the hyperbolic radius sequence — does the signal's hierarchical depth persist over time? Devil's Staircase (4.98) and Champernowne (4.97) score highest — their radial positions are strongly correlated over time. L-System Dragon and Fibonacci Word score 0.0 (no radial memory — the depth changes randomly from step to step).

Atlas Rankings

boundary_dynamics
SourceDomainValue
BTC Close Pricefinancial0.1462
Takagi Functionexotic0.1364
Spectral Form Factorquantum0.1332
···
Fibonacci Wordexotic0.0000
Thue-Morseexotic0.0000
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos0.0000
depth_height_corr
SourceDomainValue
Forest Fireexotic0.6801
Tank Drain Cascadeexotic0.6782
Spectral Form Factorquantum0.6722
···
Wave Height (Buoy)geophysics-0.8331
Intermittent Silenceexotic-0.8275
Surface Wind (ORD 5-min)climate-0.7936
hyperbolic_step_dispersion
SourceDomainValue
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos9.4349
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos8.2805
Symbolic Henonexotic7.7290
···
Logistic r=3.83 (Period-3 Window)chaos0.0000
OTOC Growthquantum0.0057
Spectral Form Factorquantum0.0306
hyperbolic_triangle_area
SourceDomainValue
Quartic Map (Feigenbaum)chaos2.5129
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos2.3647
Sine Map (Feigenbaum)chaos2.2428
···
Pell Wordexotic0.0000
Logistic r=3.83 (Period-3 Window)chaos0.0000
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos0.0000
hyperbolic_variance
SourceDomainValue
ECG Ventricularmedical3.4537
Damped Pendulummotion3.3435
ECG Supraventr.medical3.3422
···
Logistic r=3.83 (Period-3 Window)chaos0.0000
Penrose Substitutionexotic0.0000
Pell Wordexotic0.0000
radial_temporal_memory
SourceDomainValue
Champernownenumber_theory4.9771
Spectral Form Factorquantum4.9732
OTOC Growthquantum4.9718
···
Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos0.0000
Logistic r=3.83 (Period-3 Window)chaos0.0000
Kolakoski Sequenceexotic0.0000

When It Lights Up

H² x R is the hyperbolic counterpart to S² x R: where S² x R decomposes into direction + scalar, H² x R decomposes into hierarchical depth + scalar. The hyperbolic_variance metric's ECG dominance (top 3 are all cardiac signals) suggests it captures a specific physical phenomenon: the heartbeat's voltage range maps naturally to radial excursion in the Poincare disk, and pathological rhythms (tachycardia) explore this range more than normal sinus rhythm. The depth_height_corr metric then adds temporal coupling: environmental signals (humidity, forest fire) show positive coupling while ocean/atmospheric signals (wind, waves) show negative.

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