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Why is the concept of self-organized criticality (SOC), such an interdisciplinary subject, being applied in geophysics, astrophysics, or financial physics with equal fervor? On the most general level, the common denominator of all SOC processes in different science disciplines is the statistics of nonlinear processes, which exhibit omnipresent powerlaw distributions. Nonlinear processes are characterized by a nonlinear growth phase, during which coherent growth is enabled, which has multiplicative characteristics, in contrast to linear processes with incoherent and additive characteristics.
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Aschwanden, M. (2011). Physical SOC Models. In: Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15001-2_9
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