Geometrical aspects in the distribution of languages and urban settlements

被引：2

作者：

Gomes, MAF ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Fed Pernambuco, Dept Fis, BR-50670901 Recife, PE, Brazil

来源：

PHYSICA A | 2001年 / 295卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

diversity; languages; scaling laws; urban settlements;

D O I：

10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00047-4

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

A discussion of certain geometrical aspects in the distribution of living languages as well as in the distribution of urban settlements is made with emphasis in scaling laws and fractals. It is shown that a power law scaling exists for the distribution n(s) of islands of s habitations in a spontaneous urban settlement. An analogy between the scaling laws appearing in the distribution of languages and in the distribution of urban settlements is made and a conjecture about n(s) is advanced. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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