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Power-law tail distributions and nonergodicity

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We establish an explicit correspondence between ergodicity breaking in a system described by power-law tail distributions and the divergence of the moments of these distributions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405637,
  title  = {Power-law tail distributions and nonergodicity},
  author = {Eric Lutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405637},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, corrected typos

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