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Statistical properties of the rooted-tree encoding of N

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  • Contucci, Pierluigi
  • Giberti, Claudio
  • Osabutey, Godwin
  • Vernia, Cecilia

Abstract

We prime-encode the natural numbers via recursive factorisation, iterated to the exponents, generating a corpus of planar rooted trees equivalently represented as Dyck words. This forms a deterministic text endowed with internal rules. Statistical analysis of the corpus reveals that the dictionary and the entropy grow sublinearly, compression shows non-monotonic trend, and the rank-frequency curves assume a stable parabolic form deviating from Zipf’s law. Correlation analysis using mean-squared displacement reveals a transition from normal diffusion to superdiffusion in the associated walk. These findings characterise the tree-encoded sequence as a statistically structured text with long-range correlations grounded in its generative arithmetic law, providing an empirical basis for subsequent theoretical investigations and empirical ones with large language models.

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  • Contucci, Pierluigi & Giberti, Claudio & Osabutey, Godwin & Vernia, Cecilia, 2026. "Statistical properties of the rooted-tree encoding of N," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 686(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:686:y:2026:i:c:s037843712600097x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2026.131361
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