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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Idiosyncrasy as an Explanation for Power Laws in Nature
verfasst von : Salvador Pueyo
Erschienen in: Extended Abstracts Spring 2013
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Abstract
One central theme of complex systems theory is the identification of the mechanisms behind power laws in nature. Most attention has focused on simple mechanisms. Here I show that, in broad conditions, power laws with exponent close to τ = 1 also arise from complex combinations of mechanisms that, in isolation, would not necessarily produce scale invariance. This contribution is a synthesis of papers by the author in journals of ecology and of climatology (the main ones being [12, 13]), which have, however, implications beyond these fields.