Subexponential growth of early Christianity

2021/11/16 by Lucero, Jorge C.
#62P25 #91D30 #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.08833

Abstract

This paper presents a simple mathematical model for the growth of the Christian population in the Roman Empire during the first to fourth centuries. The model has a subexponential growth rate of order e^o(t), where o denotes the "little-o" asymptotic bound, but still superpolynomial, and it fits available Christian population estimates with good accuracy.

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