The Hurst Exponent of Fermi GRBs

Using a wavelet decomposition technique, we have extracted the Hurst exponent for a sample of 46 long and 22 short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor aboard the Fermi satellite. This exponent is a scaling parameter that provides a measure of long-range behaviour in a time series. The mean Hurst exponent for the short GRBs is significantly smaller than that for the long...