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Benford's Law and First Letter of Word
Xiaoyong Yan, Seong-Gyu Yang, Beom Jun Kim +1
A universal First-Letter Law (FLL) is derived and described. It predicts the percentages of first letters for words in novels. The FLL is akin to Benford's law (BL) of first digits…
The Dependence of Frequency Distributions on Multiple Meanings of Words, Codes and Signs
Xiaoyong Yan, Petter Minnhagen
The dependence of the frequency distributions due to multiple meanings of words in a text is investigated by deleting letters. By coding the words with fewer letters the number of…
The likely determines the unlikely
Xiaoyong Yan, Petter Minnhagen, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We point out that the functional form describing the frequency of sizes of events in complex systems (e.g. earthquakes, forest fires, bursts of neuronal activity) can be obtained f…
Randomness versus specifics for word-frequency distributions
Xiao-Yong Yan, Petter Minnhagen
The text-length-dependence of real word-frequency distributions can be connected to the general properties of a random book. It is pointed out that this finding has strong implicat…
Maximum Entropy, Word-Frequency, Chinese Characters, and Multiple Meanings
Xiao-Yong Yan, Petter Minnhagen
The word-frequency distribution of a text written by an author is well accounted for by a maximum entropy distribution, the RGF (random group formation)-prediction. The RGF-distrib…
Residual discrete symmetry of the five-state clock model
Seung Ki Baek, Harri Mäkelä, Petter Minnhagen +1
It is well-known that the -state clock model can exhibit a Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition if is equal to or greater than a certain threshold, which has been believed to…