Criticality and punctuated equilibrium in a spin system model of a financial market

A. Ponzi*, Y. Aizawa

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Abstract

Recent works on self-organized criticality (SOC) in pulse coupled relaxation oscillators have shown SOC to be related to frustrated attempts of the system to synchronize. Criticality has also been connected to punctuated equilibrium behaviour. We describe a model which shows a non-equilibrium phase transition and seems to link these two ideas. Near the transition, punctuated equilibrium behaviour is seen, with avalanches occurring on all scales. This scaling is described by an exponent very near 1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1739-1746
Number of pages8
JournalChaos, Solitons and Fractals
Volume11
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000 Sept

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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