The Origin of Spatial Intermittency in the Galaxy Distribution
arXiv:astro-ph/0110615 · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05096.x
Abstract
The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This approach has a number of interesting features, many of which were pointed out in a seminal paper by Widrow & Kaiser (1993). In particular we show that this approach yields an elegant reformulation of an idea due to Jones (1999) concerning the origin of lognormal intermittency in the galaxy distribution.
4 pages, to appear in MNRAS, no figures
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