Tree Structure of a Percolating Universe

Colombi, S. ; Pogosyan, D. ; Souradeep, T. (2000) Tree Structure of a Percolating Universe Physical Review letters, 85 (26). pp. 5515-5518. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We present a numerical study of topological descriptors of initially Gaussian and scale-free density perturbations evolving via gravitational instability in an expanding Universe. The measured Euler number of the excursion set at the percolation threshold, δc, is positive and nearly equal to the number of isolated components, suggesting that these structures are trees. Our study of critical point counts reconciles the clumpy appearance of the density field at δc with measured filamentary local curvature. In the Gaussian limit, we measure |δc|>σ2, where is the variance of the density field.

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