Power laws are logarithmic Boltzmann laws

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 595-601

  Levy, Moshe ^a   Solomon, Sorin ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Boltzmann Law; L vy Distribution; Multiplicative Stochastic; Non Equilibrium Complex Systems; Pareto; Power Laws; Self Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030501958     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183196000491     Document Type: Article

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