Power law scaling for a system of interacting units with complex internal structure

Luís A.Nunes Amaral, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, Michael A. Salinger, H. Eugene Stanley

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Abstract

We study the dynamics of a system composed of interacting units each with a complex internal structure comprising many subunits and treat the case in which each subunit grows in a multiplicative manner. We propose a model for such systems in which the interaction among the units is treated in a mean field approximation and the interaction among subunits is nonlinear. We test the model and find agreement between our predictions and empirical results based on a large economics database spanning 20 years.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1385-1388
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume80
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Feb 1998

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