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论可见宇宙的分形维数

On the Fractal Dimension of the Visible Universe

Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Esa Järvenpää, Maarit Järvenpää, Itamar Procaccia

摘要:

基于不断改进的数据集,对宇宙中星系集的分形维数$D$的估计往往停留在$D\approx 2$上。这一结果引起了激烈的争论,因为它与期望均匀宇宙的天体物理模型存在明显的矛盾。最近的一个数学结果表明,这并不矛盾,因为对{ \em visible}星系子集的维度测量,从上到下的边界是D=2,即使真实的维度是D=2和D=3之间的任何值。我们证明了这一结果的背景下,一个简单的分形模型,并解释如何进行,以找到一个更好的估计的真实尺寸的一组星系。

英文摘要:

Estimates of the fractal dimension $D$ of the set of galaxies in the universe, based on ever improving data sets, tend to settle on $D\approx 2$. This result raised a raging debate due to its glaring contradiction with astrophysical models that expect a homogeneous universe. A recent mathematical result indicates that there is no contradiction, since measurements of the dimension of the {\em visible} subset of galaxies is bounded from above by D=2 even if the true dimension is anything between D=2 and D=3. We demonstrate this result in the context of a simple fractal model, and explain how to proceed in order to find a better estimate of the true dimension of the set of galaxies.

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