Fermion-like behavior of elements/agents in their spatial distribution around points of interest

Josu Martinez-Perdiguero

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2020, vol. 557, issue C

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the spatial distribution of elements around points of interest. Based on a spatial exclusion principle we model the system by means of a Fermi–Dirac distribution defined by two easily interpretable parameters. By means of image analysis, two real cases are studied and compared to the theory: people in an open-air concert and cars in a mall parking-lot. We show that they closely obey the proposed fermion-like statistics.

Keywords: People behavior; Crowd distribution; Points of interest; Fermi–Dirac statistics; Sociophysics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.124905

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