H² × ℝ (Thurston)

Hyperbolic layering, vertical drift
symmetrydim 34 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.

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 Pricefinancial0.1451
Levy Flightexotic0.1225
ETH/BTC Ratiofinancial0.1154
···
Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Logistic r=3.5 (Period-4)chaos0.0000
Logistic r=3.83 (Period-3 Window)chaos0.0000
depth_height_corr
SourceDomainValue
Forest Fireexotic0.6765
Humidityclimate0.6175
BTC Volumefinancial0.5579
···
Intermittent Silenceexotic-0.8304
Wave Height (Buoy)geophysics-0.8114
Surface Wind (ORD 5-min)climate-0.7937
hyperbolic_variance
SourceDomainValue
ECG Ventricularmedical3.4537
Damped Pendulummotion3.3494
ECG Supraventr.medical3.3422
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Logistic r=3.2 (Period-2)chaos0.0000
Logistic r=3.83 (Period-3 Window)chaos0.0000
Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
radial_temporal_memory
SourceDomainValue
Devil's Staircaseexotic4.9773
Champernownenumber_theory4.9687
Temperature Driftclimate4.9405
···
Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Collatz Paritynumber_theory0.0000
Square Wavewaveform0.0000

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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