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Scale Invariance Without Mechanism ?

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Part of the book series: Centre de Physique des Houches ((LHWINTER,volume 7))

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A log-log plot of experimental data has the wonderful property of displaying, more often than not, a portion of a straight line. However, there is a widely spread tendency to look for simple, ideal situations; one often interprets a straight line as a scaling law reflecting an important information. We want to stress, on a curious example, how deeply misleading this quest for simple interpretation can be.

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  1. UMR 5588 du CNRS, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université Grenoble I - Joseph Fourier, B.P. 87, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Hères cedex, France

    F. Graner

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  1. CNRS, CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/Service d’Astrophysique, L’Orme des Merisiers 709, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    B. Dubrulle

  2. CNRS, UMR 5588, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université Grenoble I — Joseph Fourier, B.P. 87, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Hères cedex, France

    F. Graner

  3. Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS and Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, 06108, Nice, France

    D. Sornette

  4. Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, 90095-1567, Los Angeles, California, USA

    D. Sornette

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Graner, F. (1997). Scale Invariance Without Mechanism ?. In: Dubrulle, B., Graner, F., Sornette, D. (eds) Scale Invariance and Beyond. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09799-1_1

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