Variational principle underlying scale invariant social systems

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hernando, A ^a   Plastino, A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL DATA; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; INFORMATION MEASURES; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RANDOM WALKERS; SCALE-INVARIANT; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84866558381     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: 14346036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2012-30313-x     Document Type: Article

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