The universal macroscopic statistics and phase transitions of rank distributions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 4293-4303

  Eliazar, Iddo ^a   Cohen, Morrel H ^b,c  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Limit Theorem (CLT); Lorenz curves; Lorenzian Limit Law (LLL); Network topologies; Pareto's law; Phase transitions; Power laws; Rank distributions; Regular variation; Self organized criticality (SOC); Socioeconomic states; Universality; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); ECONOMICS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TOPOLOGY;

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; LIMIT LAWS; LORENZ CURVES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; POWER-LAW; RANK DISTRIBUTIONS; REGULAR VARIATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATES; UNIVERSALITY; ZIPF'S LAW;

STATISTICS;

EID: 80052568376     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.06.049     Document Type: Article

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