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Zipf's law and the creation of musical context
Damian H. Zanette
This article discusses the extension of the notion of context from linguistics to the domain of music. In language, the statistical regularity known as Zipf's law -which concerns t…
Minorities in a model for opinion formation
M. F. Laguna, Guillermo Abramson, Damian H. Zanette
We study a model for social influence in which the agents' opinion is a continuous variable [G. Weisbuch et al., Complexity \textbf{7}, 2, 55 (2002)]. The convergent opinion adjust…
Dynamics of text generation with realistic Zipf distribution
Damián H. Zanette, Marcelo A. Montemurro
We investigate the origin of Zipf's law for words in written texts by means of a stochastic dynamical model for text generation. The model incorporates both features related to the…
At the boundary between biological and cultural evolution: The origin of surname distributions
Susanna C. Manrubia, Damian H. Zanette
Surnames and nonrecombining alleles are inherited from a single parent in a highly similar way. A simple birth-death model with mutations can accurately describe this process. Expo…
Entropic analysis of the role of words in literary texts
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damian H. Zanette
Beyond the local constraints imposed by grammar, words concatenated in long sequences carrying a complex message show statistical regularities that may reflect their linguistic rol…
Criticality of rumor propagation on small-world networks
Damian H. Zanette
We show that a simple model for the propagation of a rumor on a small-world network exhibits critical behavior at a finite randomness of the underlying graph. The transition occurs…