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Understanding Zipf's law of word frequencies through sample-space collapse in sentence formation
Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel, Bo Liu +1
The formation of sentences is a highly structured and history-dependent process. The probability of using a specific word in a sentence strongly depends on the 'history' of word-us…
Understanding scaling through history-dependent processes with collapsing sample space
Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner
History-dependent processes are ubiquitous in natural and social systems. Many such stochastic processes, especially those that are associated with complex systems, become more con…
How multiplicity determines entropy and the derivation of the maximum entropy principle for complex systems
Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner, Murray Gell-Mann
The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is a method for obtaining the most likely distribution functions of observables from statistical systems, by maximizing entropy under constraint…