IFLP   13074
INSTITUTO DE FISICA LA PLATA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Variational principle underlying scale invariant social systems
Autor/es:
A. HERNANDO; A. PLASTINO
Revista:
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B - CONDENSED MATTER
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2012 vol. 85 p. 293 - 301
ISSN:
1434-6028
Resumen:
MaxEnts variational principle, in conjunction with Shannons logarithmic information measure,yields only exponential functional forms in straightforward fashion. In this communication we show how to
overcome this limitation via the incorporation, into the variational process, of suitable dynamical information.As a consequence, we are able to formulate a somewhat generalized Shannonian maximum entropy
approach which provides a unifying thermodynamic-like explanation for the scale-invariant phenomena observed in social contexts, as city-population distributions. We confirm the MaxEnt predictions by means of numerical experiments with random walkers, and compare them with some empirical data.