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Hyperscaling of spatial fluctuations constrains the development of urban populations
Wout Merbis, Fernando A. N. Santos, Jay Armas +2
Urban populations exhibit fractal organization and systematic scaling regularities, yet the scaling exponents reported across cities vary substantially, challenging existing theory…
Symmetric preferences, asymmetric outcomes: Tipping dynamics in an open-city segregation model
Fabio van Dissel, Tuan Minh Pham, Wout Merbis
Schelling's model of segregation demonstrates that even in the absence of social or governmental interventions, individuals with mild in-group preferences can self-organize into st…
Risk aversion can promote cooperation
Jay Armas, Wout Merbis, Janusz Meylahn +2
Cooperative dynamics are central to our understanding of many phenomena in living and complex systems. However, we lack a universal mechanism to explain the emergence of cooperatio…
Complex information dynamics of epidemic spreading in low-dimensional networks
Wout Merbis, Manlio de Domenico
The statistical field theory of information dynamics on complex networks concerns the dynamical evolution of large classes of models of complex systems. Previous work has focused o…
Emergent information dynamics in many-body interconnected systems
Wout Merbis, Manlio de Domenico
The information implicitly represented in the state of physical systems allows one to analyze them with analytical techniques from statistical mechanics and information theory. In…