Scale-Invariance Exists in the Series of Character Intervals in the Four Great Chinese Novels *

Quan-Chao Gu,Gui-Qiu Qin,Yi-Qing Wang,Chang-Gui Gu,Hui-Jie Yang

Fig. 3 (Color online) The scale-invariance behavior in the series of character intervals for individual parts within each novel, in Romance of the three kingdoms (a), All men are brothers (b), A dream of red mansions (c) and The journal to west (d). $N_1$, $N_2$ and $N_3$ represent the first part, second part and the last part within one novel. $r$ is the scaling exponent. Note that, for visibility, the value of $F(n)$ is divided by 4 and 16, for $N_2$ and $N_3$, respectively. Note that the mean of exponents for the three parts is not equal to the exponent for the whole novel, because the interval series for each part is redefined based on the method of Fig. 1, but not directly selected from the integrated interval-time-sires of the whole novel.