Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law

Matteo Marsili A · Yi‐Cheng Zhang

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We present a general approach to explain the Zipf's law of city distribution. If the simplest interaction (pairwise) is assumed, individuals tend to form cities in agreement with the well-known statistics.

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