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Emergence of Zipf's Law in the Evolution of Communication
Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Jordi Fortuny, Ricard V. Solé
Zipf's law seems to be ubiquitous in human languages and appears to be a universal property of complex communicating systems. Following the early proposal made by Zipf concerning t…
Topological reversibility and causality in feed-forward networks
Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Carlos Rodríguez-Caso, Joaquín Goñi +1
Systems whose organization displays causal asymmetry constraints, from evolutionary trees to river basins or transport networks, can be often described in terms of directed paths (…
Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change
Ricard V. Solé, Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Jordi Fortuny
As early indicated by Charles Darwin, languages behave and change very much like living species. They display high diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear.…
Universality of Zipf's Law
Bernat Corominas Murtra, Ricard Solé
Zipf's law is the most common statistical distribution displaying scaling behavior. Cities, populations or firms are just examples of this seemingly universal law. Although many di…