Competition between two kinds of correlations in literary texts
Competition between two kinds of correlations in literary texts
A theory of additive Markov chains with long-range memory is used to describe the correlation properties of coarse-grained literary texts. The complex structure of the correlations in the texts is revealed. Antipersistent correlations at small distances, $L\ensuremath{\lesssim}300$, and persistent ones at $L\ensuremath{\gtrsim}300$ define this nontrivial structure. For some concrete examples …