Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1 adap-org
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
We present a general approach to explain the Zipf's law of city distribution. If the simplest interaction (pairwise) is assumed, individuals tend to form cities in agreement with the well-known statistics
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9801289,
title = {Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law},
author = {Matteo Marsili and Yi-Cheng Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9801289},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages 2 figures