# Lin 2017: Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages

> Henry Lin, Max Tegmark, 2017. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The emerging-methods survey uses its result to propose comparing how word mutual…

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# Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages

Henry Lin, Max Tegmark, 2017. _Entropy_.

Shows that mutual information between two symbols decays exponentially with distance under regular grammars but can decay as a power law under context-free grammars, and links this to results in statistical physics.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.3390/e19070299](https://doi.org/10.3390/e19070299)** Checked against the original0

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The emerging-methods survey uses its result to propose comparing how word mutual information decays with distance in the manuscript and in Markov generators.

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Lin, H., & Tegmark, M. (2017). Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages. Entropy. https://doi.org/10.3390/e19070299
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