Published February 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

Expansion Around the Mean-Field Solution of the Bak-Sneppen Model

  • 1. Institut de Physique Theorique, Universite de Fribourg Perolles, Fribourg, CH-1700 (Switzerland)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik Komplexer Systeme, Noethnitzer Str.38, D-01187 Dresden (Germany)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)

Description

We study a recently proposed equation for the avalanche distribution in the Bak-Sneppen model. We demonstrate that this equation indirectly relates τ , the exponent for the power law distribution of avalanche sizes, to D , the fractal dimension of an avalanche cluster. We compute this relation numerically and approximate it analytically up to the second order of expansion around the mean-field exponents. Our results are consistent with Monte Carlo simulations of the Bak-Sneppen model in one and two dimensions. copyright 1998 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1457-1460.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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