De Luca, Andrea; Rossi, Paolo - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 17, pp. 3609-3614
According to many phenomenological and theoretical studies the distribution of family name frequencies in a population can be asymptotically described by a power law. We show that the Galton–Watson process corresponding to the dynamics of a growing population can be represented in Hilbert...