Levy flight (Mandelbrot 1963)

Layer 1 — Physicsin the econophysics subtree

Mandelbrot 1963 cotton-price returns: heavy-tailed alpha-stable Levy distribution alpha~1.7; characteristic-function exp(-|t|^alpha); breaks Gaussian CLT for sums.

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