Temporal generation of power-law distributions: A universal 'oligarchy mechanism'

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-57

  Eliazar, Iddo ^a   Klafter, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pareto distribution; Power laws; Universality; Waiting times

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

INTEGER-VALUED EXPONENTS; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; WAITING TIMES;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33846221411     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.020     Document Type: Article

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