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Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: We present a general approach to explain the Zipf's law of city distribution. If the simplest interaction (pairwise) is assumed, individuals tend to form cities in agreement with the well-known statistics.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.80.2741

Authors: Matteo Marsili, Yi-Cheng Zhang

Institutions: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, University of Fribourg

Language: English

Topic: Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1986992375

FWCI: 29.94

Cites: 4

Cited by: 215

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