{
  "id": "cond-mat/0110426",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-10-19T23:30:30.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-10-19T23:30:30.000Z",
  "title": "Mechanism for Powerlaws without Self-Organization",
  "authors": [
    "D. Sornette"
  ],
  "comment": "Latex document of 3 pages, no figures, in press in Int. J. Mod. Phys. C",
  "journal": "Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 13 (2), 133-136 (2002)",
  "doi": "10.1142/S0129183102003036",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "A recent claim has been made in the journal Nature that there must be a self-regulation in the waiting times to see hospital consultants on the ground that the relative changes in the size of waiting lists follow a power law. In agreement with simulations of Frecketon and Sutherland, we explain the general non-self-regulating mechanism underlying this result and derive the exact value -2 of the exponent found empirically and numerically. In addition, we provide links with related phenomena encountered in many other fields.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-10-19T23:30:30.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "self-organization",
      "journal nature",
      "hospital consultants",
      "power law",
      "general non-self-regulating mechanism"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 3,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}