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Universal fluctuations and extreme value statistics

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We study the effect of long range algebraic correlations on extreme value statistics and demonstrate that correlations can produce a limit distribution which is indistinguishable from the ubiquitous Bramwell-Holdsworth-Pinton distribution. We also consider the square-width fluctuations of the avalanche signal. We find, as recently predicted by T. Antal, M. Droz G. Gyorgyi and Z. Racz for logarithmic correlated 1/f signals, that these fluctuations follow the Fisher-Tippett-Gumbel distribution from uncorrelated extreme value statistics.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108007,
  title  = {Universal fluctuations and extreme value statistics},
  author = {Kajsa Dahlstedt and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108007},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, 12 references Replaced to correct misleading error in the Discussion Section