Math behind everyday life: "black days", their manifestation as traffic jams, and beyond
In our daily lives, we encounter numerous independent events, each occurring with varying probabilities over time. This letter delves into the scientific background behind the inhomogeneous distribution of these events over time, often resulting in what we refer to as ``black days'', where...
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Zusammenfassung: | In our daily lives, we encounter numerous independent events, each occurring
with varying probabilities over time. This letter delves into the scientific
background behind the inhomogeneous distribution of these events over time,
often resulting in what we refer to as ``black days'', where multiple events
seem to converge at once. In the first part of the work we performed an
analysis involving $D$ independent periodic and random sequences of events.
Using the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) technique, we
observed a clustering of event sequences on a two-dimensional manifold ${\cal
M}$ at a certain large $D$. We interpret this clustering as a signature of
``black days'', which bears a clear resemblance to traffic jams in vehicle
flow. In the second part of the work we examined in detail clustering patterns
of independently distributed $N$ points within the corners of a $D$-dimensional
cube when $1\ll N |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2405.19459 |