MAXIMAL NON-SYMMETRIC ENTROPY LEADS NATURALLY TO ZIPF'S LAW

DOI10.1142/S0218348X08003788zbMATH Open1523.94048arXivcond-mat/0609344MaRDI QIDQ6089696FDOQ6089696

Authors: Cheng-Shi Liu 

Publication date: 13 November 2023

Published in: Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As the most fundamental empirical law, Zipf's law has been studied from many aspects. But its meaning is still an open problem. Some models have been constructed to explain Zipf's law. In the letter, a new concept named nonsymmetric entropy was introduced, maximizing nonsymmetric entropy leads naturally to Zipf's law.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609344

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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