Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law

Preprint

28 January 1998

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9801289

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

INTERACTING INDIVIDUALS
INDIVIDUALS LEADING
INDIVIDUALS TEND
FORM CITIES
STATISTICS
ZIPF'S LAW

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Version 1, 1998-01-28, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 80 (12), 2741.