Maximal Diversity and Zipf's Law

Onofrio Mazzarisi1,2, Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes3, Jeferson J Arenzon3,4

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrae 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|October 1, 2021
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