Zipf's law from a Fisher variational-principle

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2009.10.027zbMath1235.82005arXiv0908.0501WikidataQ56768334 ScholiaQ56768334MaRDI QIDQ763770

Antonio Hernando, D. Puigdomènech, D. Villuendas, C. Vesperinas, Angel Plastino

Publication date: 2 April 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0501

zbMATH Keywords

Fisher information; Zipf's law; scale-invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82B05: Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

49S05: Variational principles of physics

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