Power laws are disguised Boltzmann laws

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 333-343

  Richmond, Peter ^a   Solomon, Sorin ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Generalized Lotka Volterra; Logistic Equations; Pareto Power Law; Statistical Mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035593606     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183101001754     Document Type: Article

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