In this paper, we report an analysis of the protein sequence length distribution for 13 bacteria, four archaea and one eukaryote whose genomes have been completely sequenced. The frequency distribution of protein sequence length for all the 18 organisms are remarkably similar, independent of...

We introduce a stochastic model which describes the information diffusion on the network of a popular web service, Twitter. Restricting our attention to the daily diffusion from a popular account, we model the information diffusion as a random multiplicative process. We justify our model by...

We explain a possible mechanism of an information spreading on a network which spreads extremely far from a seed node, namely the viral spreading. On the basis of a model of the information spreading in an online social network, in which the dynamics is expressed as a random multiplicative...

A random multiplicative process (RMP) is one of the basic models which can generate a power law distribution. Actually, the distribution generated by RMP has two parts, which are closely matched to the head of a log-normal distribution and the tail of a power law distribution. We investigated...

One class of universal mechanisms that generate power-law probability distributions is that of random multiplicative processes. In this paper, we consider a multiplicative Langevin equation driven by non-Gaussian colored multipliers. We analytically derive a formula that relates the power-law...

Punctuated Equilibrium (PE) states that after long periods of evolutionary quiescence, species evolution can take place in short time intervals, where sudden differentiation makes new species emerge and some species extinct. In this paper, we introduce and study the effect of punctuated...

We use data on the wealth of the richest persons taken from the ‘rich lists’ provided by business magazines like Forbes to verify if the upper tails of wealth distributions follow, as often claimed, a power-law behaviour. The data sets used cover the world’s richest persons over...

We study a model of wealth dynamics (Physica A 282 (2000) 536) which mimics transactions among economic agents. The outcomes of the model are shown to depend strongly on the topological properties of the underlying transaction network. The extreme cases of a fully connected and a fully...

This study uses survey data from India to examine the top percentile of the wealth distribution in India. Using nationally representative samples from two years, 1991 and 2002, a power law tail is found with a Pareto exponent ranging between 1.8 and 2.4. The tail is examined for three specific...

We show, analytically and numerically, that wealth distribution in the Bouchaud–Mézard network model of the economy is described by a three-parameter generalized inverse gamma distribution. In the mean-field limit of a network with any two agents linked, it reduces to the inverse gamma...