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In complex systems, the interplay between nonlinear and stochastic dynamics, e.g., J. Monod's necessity and chance, gives rise to an evolutionary process in Darwinian sense, in terms of discrete jumps among attractors, with punctuated…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-03-18 Hong Qian

The unique fluctuation-dissipation theorem for equilibrium stands in contrast with the wide variety of nonequilibrium linear response formulae. Their most traditional approach is "analytic", which, in the absence of detailed balance,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-21 Marco Baiesi , Christian Maes

Links between power law probability distributions and marginal distributions of uniform laws on $p$-spheres in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ show that a mathematical derivation of the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution necessarily passes through power law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Vignat , A. Plastino

For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws, but often show strong deviationns from such a law. Previously, these deviations were attributed to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Johan Chu , Chris Adami

The goal of this paper is to apply the collection of mathematical tools known as the "method of arbitrary functions" to analyze how probability arises from quantum dynamics. We argue that in a toy model of quantum measurement the Born rule…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Liam Bonds , Brooke Burson , Kade Cicchella , Benjamin H. Feintzeig , Lynnx , Alia Yusaini

Sea ice is a complex system, and observations have shown that ice segments (i.e., floes) have a wide range of sizes, with a floe size distribution that follows a power law. However, a theory for the power law and its exponent have remained…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Samuel N. Stechmann , Jiuhua Hu , Brandon P. Montemuro , Nan Chen , Georgy E. Manucharyan , Evelyn Tollar , Yujia Zhang

The stochastic scenario of relaxation in the complex systems is presented. It is based on a general probabilistic formalism of limit theorems. The nonexponential relaxation is shown to result from the asymptotic self-similar properties in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

A new transient effective theory of the relativistic Boltzmann equation is derived for locally momentum-anisotropic systems. In the expansion of the distribution function around a local "quasi-equilibrium" state a non-hydrodynamic dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Dennis Bazow , Mauricio Martinez , Ulrich W. Heinz

We show that an economic system populated by multiple agents generates an equilibrium distribution in the form of multiple scaling laws of conditional PDFs, which are sufficient for characterizing the probability distribution. The existence…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-03-12 Hideaki Aoyama , Yoshi Fujiwara , Mauro Gallegati

Galaxies and clusters distributions show two major properties: (i) the positions of galaxies and clusters are characterized by a power law distribution indicating properties with respect to their positions. (ii) The distribution of masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Francesco Sylos Labini , Luciano Pietronero

Many-body dynamical models in which Boltzmann statistics can be derived directly from the underlying dynamical laws without invoking the fundamental postulates of statistical mechanics are scarce. Interestingly, one such model is found in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-06 Maggie Miao , Kristian Blom , Dmitrii E. Makarov

This paper introduces nonparametric econometric methods that characterize general power law distributions under basic stability conditions. These methods extend the literature on power laws in the social sciences in several directions.…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-07 Ricardo T. Fernholz

We review the mathematical formalism underlying the modelling of stochasticity in biological systems. Beginning with a description of the system in terms of its basic constituents, we derive the mesoscopic equations governing the dynamics…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-11-05 Alan J. McKane , Tommaso Biancalani , Tim Rogers

Gradually Truncated Log-normal distribution - Size distribution of firms Abstract Many natural and economical phenomena are described through power law or log- normal distributions. In these cases, probability decreases very slowly with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Hari M. Gupta , Jose R. Campanha

The relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the system of $N$ events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau $ is considered without the simplifying approximation $m^2\cong M^2$, where $M$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

We present a mathematical theory of dynamical fluctuations for the hard sphere gas in the Boltzmann-Grad limit. We prove that: (1) fluctuations of the empirical measure from the solution of the Boltzmann equation, scaled with the square…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

In quantum experiments the acquisition and representation of basic experimental information is governed by the multinomial probability distribution. There exist unique random variables, whose standard deviation becomes asymptotically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Johann Summhammer

Stochastic versions of a classical model for natural ventilation are proposed and investigated to demonstrate the effect of random fluctuations on stability and predictability. In a stochastic context, the well-known deterministic result…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-17 Veronica Andrian , John Craske

Transition state theory (TST) is generalized for the nonequilibrium system with power-law distributions. The stochastic dynamics that gives rise to the power-law distributions for the reaction coordinate and momentum is modeled by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

The recent interest in human dynamics has led researchers to investigate the stochastic processes that explain human behaviour in different contexts. Here we propose a generative model to capture the essential dynamics of survival analysis,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou