Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law
- 23 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (12) , 2741-2744
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.2741
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.Keywords
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