Trojan War displayed as a full annihilation–diffusion–reaction model

J. C. Flores

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.10.049

Trojan War displayed as a full annihilation–diffusion–reaction model

J. C. Flores

Department of Physics

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Abstract

The diffusive pair annihilation model with embedded topological domains and archaeological data is applied in an analysis of the hypothetical Trojan–Greek war during the late Bronze Age. Estimations of parameter are explicitly made for critical dynamics of the model. In particular, the 8-metre walls of Troy could be viewed as the effective shield that provided the technological difference between the two armies. Suggestively, the numbers in The Iliad are quite sound, being in accord with Lanchester's laws of warfare.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	432-435
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	467
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2016.10.049
State	Published - 1 Feb 2017

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Keywords

Applications to archaeology
Dynamical systems
Pair annihilation
Reaction–diffusion
Troy

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