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A stochastic process is a collection of random variables usually indexed by a totally ordered set.

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Is there a natural random process that is rigorously known to produce Zipf's law?

Xavier Gabaix has several papers (e.g. here and here) that look at the emergence of Zipf's law in city sizes as a natural phenomenon.
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