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¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
As an example of complex systems with catastrophes, we have studied the Internet. We have performed the Ping experiment and analyzed the time series data of the round-trip times of the Ping signals. We have discovered that there are striking common features of the Internet time series with seismic time series. In particular, we have identified the Gutenberg-Richetr law and the Omori law for the Internet time series. Next, we proceeded to investigate the seismic time series data taken in California and Japan. We have found that both the spatial distance and the time interval between two successive earthquakes follow Tsallis statistics. We have also studied the Omori regime relevant to aftershocks, and have discovered that there exist a definite aging phenomenon, which obeys a scaling law. This result suggests that the mechanism governing aftershocks can be thought of as a kind of glassy dynamics.
After these studies on earthquakes, we have introduced the concept of earthquake network, wh
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ich is a evorvrng-random-network mapping of the seismic time series. We have found that the network is of the small-world type and is scale free. Also, we have investigated the directed-network feature of the seismic time series and seen that the period distribution is also scale free.
In addition to these phenomenological studies, we have also developed fundamental theoretical studies on nonextensive statistical mechanics. Firstly, we have shown how the q-expectation value formalism is consistent with the minimum relative entropy principle associated with the maximum Tsallis entropy principle. Secondly, we have discussed thermodynamics ofa nonextensive system with a long-range interaction. We have shown that the thermodynamic scaling relation conjectured by numerical model analysis can affirmatively proved based on the generalized Euler relation. Thirdly, we have considered the phenomenon of anomalous diffusion in view of Einstein's 1905 theory of Brownian motion and have shown how naturally the fractional Fokker-Planck equation can be derived by relaxing the existence of the second moment in Einstein's theory. Less
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