Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures

• Main Authors: Gabrielli, Andrea (Author), Labini, Francesco Sylos (Author), Joyce, Michael (Author), Pietronero, Luciano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

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 comp...

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.