Hierarchy, cities size distribution and Zipf's law

DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2008-00203-1MaRDI QIDQ978631zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Semboloni

Publication date 25 June 2010

Published in The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00203-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B99) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Spatial models in sociology (91D25)

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