Some Statistics for Measuring Large-Scale Structure
Abstract
Good statistics for measuring large-scale structure in the Universe must be able to distinguish between different models of structure formation. In this paper, two and three dimensional ``counts in cell" statistics and a new ``discrete genus statistic" are applied to toy versions of several popular theories of structure formation: random phase cold dark matter model, cosmic string models, and global texture scenario. All three statistics appear quite promising in terms of differentiating between the models.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 1993
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9310004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9310004
- Bibcode:
- 1993astro.ph.10004B
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- BROWN-HET-922 (August 1993), 13 pages, 5 figures (available from the authors), uses PHYZZX