Lotka-Volterra

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What It Is

Predator-prey oscillations --- conservative nonlinear cycles (a continuum of nested closed orbits about a center, not an isolated limit cycle) with phase-shifted population waves

Interpretation

Standard analysis sees: smooth / autocorrelated; low-complexity (predictable, not noise-like); time-irreversible (slow rise, sharp collapse); volatility-clustering (bursty); low-dimensional. The atlas additionally detects Persistent Homology:max_h1_lifetime, Multi-Scale Wasserstein:w_max_ratio.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.46
asymmetry0.81
occupancy0.59
short-range corr0.91
long-range memory0.83
spectral colour0.20
periodicity0.80
complexity0.05
time-irreversibility0.04
volatility clustering0.91
multifractality0.82
dimensionality0.04
nonstationarity0.44
What the atlas adds
Persistent Homology:max_h1_lifetime+4.8z
reconstructed phase space contains a persistent topological loop (S¹) — a smooth simple limit cycle
Multi-Scale Wasserstein:w_max_ratio+2.1z
scale-coherent dispersion mismatch (max/min Wasserstein across scales)
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
Visibility Graph:degree_exponent_gamma-3.0zbank-miss 1.2σ
Hodge–Laplacian:poisson_recovery_error+2.9zbank-miss 1.1σ
Bispectrum:coupling_frequency_centroid-2.6zbank-miss 1.8σ
Visibility Graph:assortativity+2.2zbank-miss 1.3σ

Composition

dtypefloat64
range[2.023, 3.8]
unique values16384 / 16384
mean ± std2.82 ± 0.626

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Rossler Attractor3.37
Damped Pendulum3.41
Sine Wave3.54cross-origin

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Which Geometries Light Up

AutoRegressiveAutoRegressive:ar_residual_fracrank 303/3070.0000
ChladniChladni:modal_nodal_cascaderank 304/307-0.4789
Hodge–LaplacianHodge–Laplacian:poisson_recovery_errorrank 1/3075.3673
Persistent HomologyPersistent Homology:max_h1_lifetimerank 5/3070.7349
Visibility GraphVisibility Graph:avg_clustering_coeffrank 3/3070.8566
Visibility GraphVisibility Graph:assortativityrank 4/3070.5383
Visibility GraphVisibility Graph:degree_r_squaredrank 303/3070.2995
Visibility GraphVisibility Graph:degree_exponent_gammarank 306/3070.2289
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