M. Malyutov and T. Zhang

On the putative watermark in the Shakespearean Sonnets

The anomalous frequency difference of a certain collection of letters in the Shakespeare Sonnets between its initial and other lines is found. A similar Microsoft Excel analysis shows anomalous frequency of around half of the English alphabet there. The first anomaly suggests possibility of a putative watermark. An outrageous ambiguity of anagrams to literary texts of moderate length is established following from their Shannon modeling as stationary random series.

КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: anagrams, large deviations probabilities of stationary time series, homogeneity t-test, watermark