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Some Statistics for Measuring Large-Scale Structure

Robert H. Brandenberger, David M. Kaplan, Stephen A, Ramsey

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9310004

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.

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