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Preferencial growth: exact solution of the time dependent distributions

L. Kullmann, J. Kertesz

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0012410

Abstract

We consider a preferential growth model where particles are added one by one to the system consisting of clusters of particles. A new particle can either form a new cluster (with probability q) or join an already existing cluster with a probability proportional to the size thereof. We calculate exactly the probability i(k,t) that the size of the i-th cluster at time t is k. We analyze the asymptotics, the scaling properties of the size distribution and of the mean size as well as the relation of our system to recent network models.

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