Generalized dimensions of strange attractors

Abstract

It is pointed out that there exists an infinity of generalized dimensions for strange attractors, related to the order-q Renyi entropies. They are monotonically decreasing with q. For q = 0, 1 and 2, they are the capacity, the information dimension, and the correlation exponent, respectively. For all q, they are measurable from recurrence times in a time series, without need for a box-counting algorithm. For the Feigenbaum map and for the generalized Baker transformation, all generalized dimensions are finite and calculable, and depend non-trivially on q.