Publications

Book

Econophysics: An Introduction
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2010

Sitabhra Sinha, Arnab Chatterjee, Anirban Chakraborti and Bikas K. Chakrabarti

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

R. Singh, J. Xu, N. Garnier, A. Pumir and S. Sinha, "Self-organized transition to coherent activity in disordered media", to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2012). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, N. Yadav and M. Vahia, "In Square Circle: Geometric knowledge of the Indus civilization", in Math Unlimited: Essays in Mathematics (Eds. R. Sujatha, H.N. Ramaswamy and C.S. Yogananda), Science Publishers and CRC Press (2012) 451-462. (Abstract and Paper)

R. Singh, S. Dasgupta and S. Sinha, "Chimera order in spin systems", Europhys. Lett. 95 (2011) 10004 (1-5). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Poria, "Multiple dynamical time-scales in networks with hierarchically nested modular organization", Pramana: J. Phys. 77 (2011) 833-842. (Abstract and Paper)

N. Pradhan, S. Dasgupta and S. Sinha, "Modular organization enhances the robustness of attractor network dynamics", Europhys. Lett. 94 (2011) 38004 (1-6). (Abstract and Paper)

T. Jesan, G. I. Menon and S. Sinha, "Epidemiological dynamics of the 2009 Influenza A(H1N1)v outbreak in India", Current Science 100 (2011) 1051-1054. (Abstract and Paper) (Journal reprint)

This paper was highlighted in the In This Issue section of the journal (April 10,2011).

S. V. Vikram and S. Sinha, "Emergence of universal scaling in financial markets from mean-field dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 83 (2011) 016101 (1-4). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, A. M. Izhar, R. K. Pan and B. K. Wells, "Network analysis of a corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions indicates syntactic organization", Computer Speech and Language 25 (2011) 639-654. (Abstract and Paper)

V. S. Vijayraghavan and S. Sinha, "Are the trading volume and the number of trades distributions universal?", in Econophysics of Order-Driven Markets (Eds. F. Abergel, B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti and M. Mitra), Springer (2011) pp 17-30.

S. Sridhar and S. Sinha, "Response to sub-threshold stimulus is enhanced by spatially heterogeneous activity", Europhys. Lett. 92 (2010) 60006 (1-6). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sridhar, S. Sinha and A. V. Panfilov, "Anomalous drift of spiral waves in heterogeneous excitable media", Phys. Rev. E 82 (2010) 051908 (1-5). (Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "The statistical laws of popularity: Universal properties of the box office dynamics of motion pictures", New Journal of Physics 12 (2010) 115004. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, "Are large complex economic systems unstable ?" Science and Culture (Special Issue on Econophysics) 76 (2010) 454-458. (Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan, N. Chatterjee and S. Sinha, "Mesoscopic organization reveals the constraints governing Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system", PLoS ONE 5(2) e9240 (2010). (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

A. Pumir, S. Sinha, S. Sridhar, M. Argentina, M. Horning, S. Filippi, C. Cherubini, S. Luther and V. Krinsky, "Wave-train-induced termination of weakly anchored vortices in excitable media", Phys. Rev. E 81 (2010) 010901 (R) (1-4). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Dasgupta, R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Phase of Ising spins on modular networks analogous to social polarization", Phys. Rev. E 80 (2009) 025101(R) (1-4). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, T. Jesan and N. Chatterjee, "Systems Biology: From the cell to the brain", Current Trends in Science: Platinum Jubilee Special (Ed. N Mukunda), Bangalore: Indian Academy of Sciences (2009) pp 199-205. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, R. K. Pan, N. Yadav, M. Vahia and I. Mahadevan, "Network analysis reveals structure indicative of syntax in the corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions", Proc. Workshop on Graph-based methods for Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNL 2009, Suntec, Singapore, pp 5-13. (Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Modularity produces small-world networks with dynamical time-scale separation", Europhys. Lett. 85 (2009) 68006 (1-6). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Towards a physics of economics", Physics News (2009) 39 No. 2 (April 2009) 33-46. (low-resolution scanned pdf, 2 MB) (high-resolution pdf, 37 MB)

S. Sinha, "From network structure to dynamics and back again: Relating dynamical stability and connection topology in biological complex systems", in Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (Eds. N. Ganguly, A. Deutsch, and A. Mukherjee), Birkhauser (2009) pp 3-18. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Sridhar, "Controlling Spiral Turbulence in Simulated Cardiac Tissue by Low-Amplitude Traveling Wave Stimulation", in Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems: From Heart to Brain (Eds. S. K. Dana, P. K. Roy and J. Kurths), Springer (2009) pp 69-87.

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "The Mathematical Modelling of Inhomogeneities in Ventricular Tissue", in Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems: From Heart to Brain (Eds. S. K. Dana, P. K. Roy and J. Kurths), Springer (2009) pp 51-67.

S. Sridhar and S. Sinha, "Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in excitable media using an array of control points", Europhys. Lett. 81 (2008) 50002. (Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Modular networks with hierarchical organization: The dynamical implications of complex structure", Pramana: J. Phys. 71 (2008) 331-340. ( Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Inverse-cubic law of index fluctuation distribution in Indian markets", Physica A 387 (2008) 2055-2065. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Sridhar, "Controlling Spatiotemporal Chaos and Spiral Turbulence in Excitable Media", in Handbook of Chaos Control, 2nd rev edition (Eds. E. Scholl and H. G. Schuster), Wiley-VCH (2008) pp 703-718. (A slightly altered version)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Modular networks emerge from multiconstraint optimization", Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 045103(R) (1-4). (Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Collective behavior of stock price movements in an emerging market", Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 046116 (1-9). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, J. Saramaki and K. Kaski, "Emergence of self-sustained patterns in small-world excitable media", Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 015101(R) (1-4). (Abstract and Paper)

N. Chatterjee and S. Sinha, "Understanding the Mind of a Worm: Hierarchical network structure underlying nervous system function in C. Elegans", Progress in Brain Research 168 (2007) 145-153. (Paper).

A. Chatterjee, S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Economic inequality: Is it natural ?", Current Science 92 (2007) 1383-1389. (Paper)

This paper has been the subject of a news story in Physorg (April 6,2007):

World's economies show similarities in economic inequality

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Self-organization of price fluctuation distribution in evolving markets", Europhys. Lett. 77 (2007) 58004 (1-5). (Abstract and Paper)

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Cardiac arrhythmias depend sensitively on inhomogeneities in ventricular tissue", Phys. Rev. E 75 (2007) 011929 (1-8). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and R. K. Pan, "Uncovering the Internal Structure of the Indian Financial Market: Large cross-correlation behavior in the NSE", in Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2007) pp 3-19. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and N. Srivastava, "Is Inequality Inevitable in Society?: Income distribution as a consequence of resource flow in hierarchical organizations", in Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2007) pp 215-226.

S. Sinha and S. Raghavendra, "Market Polarization in Presence of Individual Choice Volatility", in Advances in Artificial Economics (Ed. C. Bruun), Springer (2006) pp 177-190. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "The Apparent Madness of Crowds: Irrational collective behavior emerging from interactions among rational agents", in Econophysics of Stock and Other Markets (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2006) pp 159-162. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and R. K. Pan, "The Power (Law) of Indian Markets: Analysing NSE and BSE trading statistics", in Econophysics of Stock and Other Markets (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2006) pp 24-34. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Raghavendra, "Emergence of two-phase behavior in markets through interaction and learning in agents with bounded rationality", in Practical Fruits of Econophysics (Ed. H. Takayasu), Springer (2006) pp 200-204. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "Phase Transitions in the Computational Complexity of `Elementary' Cellular Automata", in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (Eds. A. A. Minai and Y. Bar-Yam), Springer (2006) pp 337-348. (Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Sinha, "Robust emergent activity in dynamical networks", Phys. Rev. E 74 (2006) 066117 (1-5). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "Evidence for Power-law tail of the Wealth Distribution in India", Physica A 359 (2006) 555-562. (Abstract and Paper)

M. Brede and S. Sinha, "Assortative mixing by degree makes a network more unstable", submitted . (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and R. K. Pan, "Blockbusters, Bombs and Sleepers: The income distribution of movies", in Econophysics of Wealth Distributions (Eds. A. Chatterjee, B. K. Chakrabarti and S. Yarlagadda), Springer (2005) pp 43-47. (Abstract and Paper)

This paper has been the subject of a news story in PhysicsWeb (May 6,2005):

How to make a blockbuster

S. Sinha, "The Rich Are Different!: Pareto Law from asymmetric interactions in asset exchange models", in Econophysics of Wealth Distributions (Eds. A. Chatterjee, B. K. Chakrabarti and S. Yarlagadda), Springer (2005) pp 177-184. (Abstract and Paper)

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Spatiotemporal chaos and spiral turbulence in models of cardiac arrhythmias: an overview", Proc Indian Natl Sci Acad 71 A (2005) 47-57.

S. Sinha, "Complexity vs. stability in small-world networks", Physica A 346 (2005) 147-153. (Abstract and Paper)

J. Breuer and S. Sinha, "Death, dynamics and disorder: Terminating reentry in excitable media by dynamically induced inhomogeneities", Pramana: J. Phys. 64 (2005) 553-562. ( Abstract and Paper)

This paper has been the subject of a news story in Nature NewsIndia (May 2005): ``Revealing the patterns at the heart of life and death'' (pgs 8-9).

J. Breuer and S. Sinha, "Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in excitable media by local biphasic stimulation", preprint (2004). (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and J. Breuer, "Terminating ventricular tachycardia by pacing induced dynamical inhomogeneities in the reentry circuit", To appear in Proc. Int. Conf. Math. Biol. (IIT Kanpur, 2004). (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and S. Sinha, "Evidence of universality for the May-Wigner stability theorem for random networks with local dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 71 (2005) 020902(R) (1-4). (Published version) (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Raghavendra, "Hollywood blockbusters and long-tailed distributions: An empirical study of the popularity of movies", Eur. Phys. J. B 42 (2004) 293-296. ( Abstract and Paper )

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Ventricular fibrillation in a simple excitable medium model of cardiac tissue", Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 17 (2003) 5645-5654.

S. Sinha, "Stochastic Maps, Wealth Distribution in Random Asset Exchange Models and the Marginal Utility of Relative Wealth", Phys. Scr. T 106 (2003) 59-64. (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and D. J. Christini, "Termination of reentry in an inhomogeneous ring of model cardiac cells", Phys. Rev. E 66 (2002) 061903 (1-7). (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha, K. M. Stein and D. J. Christini, "Critical role of inhomogeneties in pacing termination of cardiac reentry", CHAOS 12 (2002) 893-902.

C. Wilmers, S. Sinha and M. Brede, "Examining the effects of species richness on community stability: an assembly model approach", Oikos 99 (2002) 363-367. (SFI Working Paper version ).

R. Pandit, A. Pande, S. Sinha and A. Sen, "Spiral turbulence and spatiotemporal chaos: Characterization and control in two excitable media", Physica A 306 (2002) 211-219.

S. Sinha and J. Basak, "Response of an excitatory-inhibitory neural network to external stimulation: An application to image segmentation", Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) 046112 (1-6). ( Paper )

S. Sinha, A. Pande and R. Pandit, "Defibrillation via the elimination of spiral turbulence in a model for ventricular fibrillation", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 3678-3681. ( Published version). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "Noise-free stochastic resonance in simple chaotic systems", Physica A 270 (1999) 204-214. ( Paper )

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Dynamical Transitions in Network Models of Collective Computation", Current Science 77 (1999) 420-428.(Special Issue on Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics) (Paper)

A. Pande, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Spiral Turbulence: From the oxidation of CO on Pt(110) to Ventricular Fibrillation", J. IISc 79 (1999) 31-40. (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha, "Chaotic dynamics in iterated map neural networks with piecewise linear activation function", Fundamenta Informaticae 37 (1999) 31-50. (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Deterministic stochastic resonance in a piecewise linear chaotic map", Phys. Rev. E 58 (1998) 8009-8012. (Paper )

S. Sinha, "Frustrated synchronization in competing drive-response coupled chaotic systems", LANL E-print ( Abstract and Paper ) (1998).

S. Sinha, "Chaos and synchronization in simple excitatory-inhibitory neural network models", Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Nonlinear Dynamics and Brain Functioning, IISc, Bangalore (1998) 54.

S. Sinha and S. Biswas, "Associative Memory for Gray-Level Images", Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. in Image Processing, Santa Barbara, (1997) 871-873.

S. Sinha, "Adaptive walks in fitness landscapes", Ind. J. Theo. Phys. 44 (1996) 63-73.

S. Sinha and S. Kar, "Competition among synchronizing chaotic systems: Implication for neural computation", in T. Yamakawa and G. Matsumoto (eds.) Methodologies for the conception, design and application of intelligent systems, Singapore: World Scientific, (1996) 700-703.

S. Sinha, "Chaos control in an oscillatory neural network model", J. IETE 42 (1996) 205-213.

S. Sinha, "Controlled transition from chaos to periodic oscillations in a neural network model", Physica A 224 (1996) 433-446. ( Paper ).

S. Sinha, "The evolution of adaptability: the artificial life approach", Ind. J. Phys. B 69 (1995) 625-640.

S. Sinha, "Influence of asymmetric initial configurations on the recall properties of the Hopfield net", J. Inst. Engg. (India) 74 (1993) 28-31.

Patents

R. Pandit, S. Sinha, A. Pande and A. Sen, "Defibrillation and spiral turbulence in a model for ventricular fibrillation", Indian Patent Number 199042 (date granted: 01/03/2006).