1995/06/27 by J. Perez--Mercader, Perez--Mercader, J., T. Goldman +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #astro-ph #gr-qc
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arxiv created 1995/06/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The partition function of a system of galaxies in gravitational interaction can be cast in an Ising Model form, and this reformulated via a Hubbard--Stratonovich transformation into a three dimensional stochastic and classical scalar field theory, whose critical exponents are calculable and known. This allows one to \it compute\/ the galaxy to galaxy correlation function, whose non--integer exponent is predicted to be between 1.530 and 1.862, to be compared with the phenomenological value of 1.6 to 1.8.