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Stationary fluctuations in stable physical systems scale as the inverse of volume, hence they are so small that in most cases can be neglected. In nonstationary stuations there are different behaviours depending on the nature of the transient and also on the initial conditions. In the following we will refer as normal the cases in which fluctuations scale as the inverse of volume and anomalous all the other cases.
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Rodríguez, M.A., Díaz-Guilera, A. (1989). The Role of Fluctuations in Nuclear Reactor Transients. In: Muñoz-Cobo, J.L., Difilippo, F.C. (eds) Noise and Nonlinear Phenomena in Nuclear Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5613-4_18
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