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Comment on "A landscape theory of aggregation"

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-05-23 v1 adap-org Statistical Mechanics Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

The problem of aggregation processes in alignments is the subject of a paper published in a Statistical Physics Journal (Physica A 230 (1996) 174-188). Two models are presented and discussed in that paper. First the energy landscape model proposed by Axelrod and Bennett (B. J. Pol. S. 23 (1993) 211-233) is analysed. The model is shown not to include most of its claimed results. Then a second model is presented to reformulate correctly the problem within statistical physics and to extend it beyond the initial Axelrod-Bennett analogy.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9901062,
  title  = {Comment on "A landscape theory of aggregation"},
  author = {Serge Galam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9901062},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, latex

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