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The Abelian distribution

Probability 2017-04-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Authors: Anna Levina , J. Michael Herrmann
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Abstract

We define the Abelian distribution and study its basic properties. Abelian distributions arise in the context of neural modeling and describe the size of neural avalanches in fully-connected integrate-and-fire models of self-organized criticality in neural systems.

Keywords

probability distribution

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@article{arxiv.1704.08496,
  title  = {The Abelian distribution},
  author = {Anna Levina and J. Michael Herrmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08496},
  year   = {2017}
}

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