Moments of power laws

guillefix 4th November 2016 at 2:43pm

As can be shown again by approximating sum by integral, all the moments km\langle k^m \rangleof a power law distribution diverge for m>α1m>\alpha-1. Of course, this is in the limit of an infinite system with the same distribution, in finite systems (as in networks with a finite number of nodes), the moment will of course be finite (for a network, kk will have a maximum value, cutting off the domain of the integral used to calculate CC).