/ 06 03 57 2 v 1 2 1 M ar 2 00 6 Cut - out sets , fractal voids and cosmic structure
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“Cut-out sets” are fractals that can be obtained by removing a sequence of disjoint regions from an initial region of d-dimensional euclidean space. Conversely, a description of some fractals in terms of their void complementary set is possible. The essential property of a sequence of fractal voids is that their sizes decrease as a power law, that is, they follow Zipf’s law. We prove the relation between the box dimension of the fractal set (in d ≤ 3) and the exponent of the Zipf law for convex voids; namely, if the Zipf law exponent e is such that 1 < e < d/(d − 1) and, in addition, we forbid the appearance of degenerate void shapes, we prove that the corresponding cut-out set has box dimension d/e (d − 1 < d/e < d). We explore the application of this result to the large scale distribution of matter in cosmology, in connection with “cosmic foam” models. PACS: 05.45.Df Fractals; 02.50.-r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; 98.65.Dx Galaxy groups, clusters, and superclusters; large scale structure of the Universe
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تاریخ انتشار 2006