Universality of Zipf's Law

DOI10.1143/JPSJ.71.1211MaRDI QIDQ4831317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenji Kawamura, Naomichi Hatano

Publication date 29 December 2004

Published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203455

zbMATH Keywords

diffusioncity population evolutioncompany asset distributiongeneric model of Zipf's lawnatural and social phenomenarandom walk in logarithmic scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Diffusion processes (60J60) Diffusion (76R50) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: We introduce a simple and generic model that reproduces Zipf's law. By regarding the time evolution of the model as a random walk in the logarithmic scale, we explain theoretically why this model reproduces Zipf's law. The explanation shows that the behavior of the model is very robust and universal.

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