Statistical mechanical foundations of power-law distributions
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Statistical mechanical foundations of power-law distributions
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عنوان ژورنال: Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0167-2789
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2004.01.010