http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140110/srep03624/pdf/srep03624.pdf
Folks here might be interested in this paper. At first blush, it looks like using power laws to predict Earthquake sizes, which is kind of non-news, but interestingly uses fission-fusion processes, which seems a long neglected model of power law phenomena. I did some work earlier showing how fission-fusion processes always generate a power law, and it is a distinct mechanism from self-organised criticality, and a distinctly different case, though related, to preferential attachment, which are the known ways of generating power laws. It's in an earlier draft of my Anthropic Ants paper, which was removed at the insistence of referees. I never quite got around to writing it up as a separate paper (always seemed a little trite of a result to devote a whole paper to it). But Nature publishing such a paper? Who'd a thunk it! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
