A renormalization group theory of cultural evolution

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 348, Issue , 2005, Pages 611-629

  Fáth, Gábor ^a,b   Sarvary, Miklos ^b  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; MARCENKO-PASTUR LAW; RENORMALIZATION GROUP THEORY; SOCIAL DYNAMICS MODELS;

DECISION MAKING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 11444261612     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.09.043     Document Type: Article

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