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cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 15 cited
Heaps' law, statistics of shared components and temporal patterns from a sample-space-reducing process
Andrea Mazzolini, Alberto Colliva, Michele Caselle +1
Zipf's law is a hallmark of several complex systems with a modular structure, such as books composed by words or genomes composed by genes. In these component systems, Zipf's law d…
physics.soc-ph2018★ 34 cited
Zipf and Heaps laws from dependency structures in component systems
Andrea Mazzolini, Jacopo Grilli, Eleonora De Lazzari +3
Complex natural and technological systems can be considered, on a coarse-grained level, as assemblies of elementary components: for example, genomes as sets of genes, or texts as s…