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

Iddo Eliazar and Joseph Klafter

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 377, issue 1, 53-57

Abstract: We present a universal mechanism for the temporal generation of power-law distributions with arbitrary integer-valued exponents.

Keywords: Power-laws; Pareto distribution; Universality; Waiting-times (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.020

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