most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-25T22:59:24Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/9361 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/39224/is-there-a-natural-random-process-that-is-rigorously-known-to-produce-zipfs-law/39314#39314 Alex Chinco 2010-09-19T16:38:51Z 2010-09-19T16:38:51Z

<p><a href="http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xgabaix/" rel="nofollow">Xavier Gabaix</a> has several papers (eg <a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003355399556133" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B7P64-4FFPH84-2F&amp;_user=142623&amp;_coverDate=12/31/2004&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_orig=search&amp;_origin=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_searchStrId=1466283797&amp;_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&amp;_acct=C000000333&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=142623&amp;md5=dfc67114398bfe4c3dcdf4b7529cb7b1&amp;searchtype=a" rel="nofollow">here</a>) that look at the emergence of Zipf's law in city sizes as a natural phenomenon.</p>