Phenomena exhibiting discontinuous change, divergent processes, and hysteresis can be modelled with catastrophe theory, a recent development in differential topology. Exposition of the theory is illustrated by qualitative interpretations of the appearance of functions in central place systems, and of price cycles for urban housing.
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Casti, J., & Swain, H. (1976). Catastrophe theory and urban processes. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 40 LNCS, pp. 388–406). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07622-0_483
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