The maximum entropy principle and the nature of fractals

We apply the Principle of Maximum Entropy to the study of a general class of deterministic fractal sets. The scaling laws peculiar to these objects are accounted for by means of a constraint concerning the average content of information in those patterns. This constraint allows for a new statistical characterization of fractal objects and fractal dimension.

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Pastor-Satorras, R ; Wagensberg, J
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 251.1998, 3, p. 291-302
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Fractals \| Statistics \| MaxEnt

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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