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Ralph Kenna

Researcher at Coventry University

Publications -  205
Citations -  3004

Ralph Kenna is an academic researcher from Coventry University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ising model & Critical exponent. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 198 publications receiving 2596 citations. Previous affiliations of Ralph Kenna include Nancy-Université & University of Graz.

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Universal properties of mythological networks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply statistical mechanical tools to analyse the networks underlying three iconic mythological narratives with a view to identifying common and distinguishing quantitative features, and find that the perceived artificiality of the Irish narrative can be traced back to anomalous features associated with six characters.
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Complex systems: physics beyond physics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the essence of complex systems from a physicists' point of view, and try to clarify what makes them conceptually different from systems that are traditionally studied in physics, and argue that there exists plenty of new ground for physicists to explore and that methodical and conceptual progress is needed most.
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Information geometry and phase transitions

TL;DR: In this paper, the information geometry for a number of solvable statistical-mechanical models has been studied and the scalar curvature of a non-interacting model has a flat geometry (R = 0) while R diverges at the critical point of an interacting one.
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The two-point resistance of a resistor network: A new formulation and application to the cobweb network

TL;DR: The results prove a recently proposed conjecture on the resistance between the center node and a node on the network boundary and solve the spanning tree problem on the cobweb network.
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The two-point resistance of a resistor network: a new formulation and application to the cobweb network

TL;DR: In this paper, Wu et al. considered the problem of two-point resistance in a resistor network and obtained a new expression for the twopoint resistance between two arbitrary nodes which is simpler and can be easier to use in practice.