Power-Laws and the Conservation of Information in discrete token systems: Part 1 General Theory

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  • Les Hatton
چکیده

The Conservation of Energy plays a pivotal part in the development of the physical sciences. With the growth of computation and the study of other discrete token based systems such as the genome, it is useful to ask if there are conservation principles which apply to such systems and what kind of functional behaviour they imply for such systems. Here I propose that the Conservation of Hartley-Shannon Information plays the same over-arching role in discrete token based systems as the Conservation of Energy does in physical systems. I will go on to prove that this implies power-law behaviour in component sizes in software systems no matter what they do or how they were built, and also implies the constancy of average gene length in biological systems as reported for example by [23]. These propositions are supported by very large amounts of experimental data extending the first presentation of these ideas in [11].

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1207.5027  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012