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  title info:
    title: Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures
  name:
    name part: Gabrielli, Andrea.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Labini, Francesco Sylos.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Joyce, Michael.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Pietronero, Luciano.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 424 p. 119 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The physics of scale-invariant and complex systems is a novel interdisciplinary field. Its ideas allow us to look at natural phenomena in a radically new and original way, eventually leading to unifying concepts independent of the detailed structure of the systems. The objective is the study of complex, scale-invariant, and more general stochastic structures that appear both in space and time in a vast variety of natural phenomena, which exhibit new types of collective behaviors, and the fostering of their understanding. This book has been conceived as a methodological monograph in which the main methods of modern statistical physics for cosmological structures and density fields (galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, etc.) are presented in detail. The main purpose is to present clearly, to a workable level, these methods, with a certain mathematical accuracy, providing also some paradigmatic examples of applications. This should result in a new and more general framework for the statistical analysis of the many new data concerning the different cosmic structures which characterize the large scale Universe and for their theoretical interpretation and modeling.
  table of contents: Statistical Methods -- Uniform and Correlated Mass Density Fields -- The Power Spectrum and the Classification of Stationary Stochastic Fields -- Fractals -- Multifractals and Mass Distributions -- Applications to Cosmology -- Fluctuations in Standard Cosmological Models: A Real Space View -- Discrete Representation of Fluctuations in Cosmological Models -- Galaxy Surveys: An Introduction to Their Analysis -- Characterizing the Observed Distribution of Visible Matter I: The Conditional Average Density in Galaxy Catalogs -- Characterizing the Observed Distribution of Visible Matter II: Number Counts and Their Fluctuations -- Luminosity in Galaxy Correlations -- The Distribution of Galaxy Clusters -- Biasing a Gaussian Random Field and the Problem of Galaxy Correlations -- The Gravitational Field in Stochastic Particle Distributions.
  note: by Andrea Gabrielli, Francesco Sylos Labini, Michael Joyce, Luciano Pietronero.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540269991
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138455
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142003.0
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