MECHANISM FOR POWERLAWS WITHOUT SELF-ORGANIZATION

Didier Sornette ()
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Didier Sornette: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA;

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2002, vol. 13, issue 02, 133-136

Abstract: A recent claim has been made that there must be a self-regulation in the waiting times to see hospital consultants on the ground that therelativechanges in the size of waiting lists follow a power law.4In agreement with simulations of Frecketon and Sutherland, we explain the general nonself-regulating mechanism underlying this result and derive the exponent value -2 exactly. In addition, we provide links with related phenomena encountered in many other fields.

Keywords: Power law distribution; self-organization; self-regulation; Ising; mechanisms for power law distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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