Models of Universal Power-Law Distributions

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Power-law distributions with various exponents are studied. We first introduce a simple and generic model that reproduces Zipf's law. We can regard this model both as the time evolution of the population of cities and that of the asset distribution. We show that our model is very robust against various variations. Next, we explain theoretically why our model reproduces Zipf's law. By considering the time-evolution equation of our model, we see that the essence of Zipf's law is an asymmetric random walk in a logarithmic scale. Finally, we extend our model by introducing an additional asymmetry. We show that the extended model reproduces various power-law exponents. By extending the theoretical argument for Zipf's law, we find a simple equation of the power-law exponent.
25 pages, figures included

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Statistical Mechanics, Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/21037

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303331
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303331

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