Zipf’s, Heaps’ and Taylor’s Laws are Determined by the Expansion into the Adjacent Possible

Zipf’s, Heaps’ and Taylor’s Laws are Determined by the Expansion into the Adjacent Possible

Zipf’s, Heaps’ and Taylor’s laws are ubiquitous in many different systems where innovation processes are at play. Together, they represent a compelling set of stylized facts regarding the overall statistics, the innovation rate and the scaling of fluctuations for system...

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Main Authors: Francesca Tria, Vittorio Loreto, Vito D. P. Servedio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
innovation dynamics
stylized facts
Zipf’s law
Heaps’ law, Taylor’s law
adjacent possible
Pólya’s Urns
Poisson-Dirichlet processes
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/10/752

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