Competition of languages in the presence of a barrier

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 379, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 661-664

  Schulze, Christian ^a   Stauffer, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geography; Monte Carlo simulation; Separation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

GEOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE COMPETITION; SCHULZE MODEL;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34247543455     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.02.071     Document Type: Article

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