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The main property of the specific algorithm is that it quantizes the stratified magnetic field. If a two-symbol symbolic time series is used to determine the flow directions of the rings\u2019 currents, a time-to-space mapping of the dynamics of the system producing the time series is observed. A unique \u201cfingerprint\u201d of the symbolic dynamics is shaped by the spatial allocation of the values of the six-valued symmetric quantized magnetic field produced by the device. This allows for the quantitative evaluation of the original system\u2019s dynamics by analyzing the resultant quantized magnetic field values space allocation, in a spectrum ranging from the lack of dynamics (randomness) to the presence of dynamics at all scales (criticality). Two examples of application\u2013corresponding to the extremes of the dynamics spectrum, specifically, for symbolic time series resulting from (a) a random numbers generator and (b) the spin alternation of 2D-Ising in its critical state, verify the reliable time-to-space mapping of the involved symbolic dynamics. Moreover, an application to the symbolic sequence produced by the DNA of the GAPDH (Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase) human gene is presented as a real-world, intermediate dynamics case. The proposed symbolic time series analysis method presents the advantage that can take into account information related to both symbols, which is particularly useful in analyzing two-symbol time series of relatively short length where the probabilities of occurrence of the two symbols are not equal. By inferring the universality class of an artificial-neural-network-based hybrid spin model through the value of the critical exponent \u03b4, it is shown that for such time series, the proposed method provides a unique way to expose the real dynamics of the underlying complex system, in contrast to the analysis of waiting times in the time domain that leads to an ambiguous quantitative result.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14112366","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]],"date-time":"2022-11-10T02:03:58Z","timestamp":1668045838000},"page":"2366","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A New Symbolic Time Series Analysis Method Based on Time-to-Space Mapping, through a Symmetric Magnetic Field, Quantized by Prime Numbers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Yiannis","family":"Contoyiannis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12244 Aigaleo-Athens, Greece"},{"name":"Department of Physics, University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8268-253X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pericles","family":"Papadopoulos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12244 Aigaleo-Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Niki-Lina","family":"Matiadou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12244 Aigaleo-Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5928-4587","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stelios M.","family":"Potirakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12244 Aigaleo-Athens, Greece"},{"name":"Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Metaxa and Vasileos Pavlou, 15236 Penteli-Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"460","DOI":"10.1140\/epjb\/e2013-40852-1","article-title":"Magnetic field fluctuations in an array of randomly directed circular currents","volume":"86","author":"Anagiannis","year":"2013","journal-title":"Eur. 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