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PHYSICA A
Volume 281, Issue 1-4, Pages 60-68Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00195-3
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This paper is a brief summary of a talk that was designed to address the question of whether two of the pillars of the field of phase transitions and critical phenomena - scale invariance and universally - can be useful in guiding research on a broad class of complex phenomena. We shall see that while scale invariance has been tested for many years, universality is relatively more rarely discussed. In particular, we shall develop a heuristic argument that serves to make more plausible the universality hypothesis in both thermal critical phenomena and percolation phenomena, and suggest that this argument could be developed into a possible coherent approach to understanding the ubiquity of scale invariance and universality in a wide range of complex systems. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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