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In the multi-fractal analysis of large scale matter distribution, the scale of transition to homogeneity is defined as the scale above which the fractal dimension of underlying point distribution is equal to the ambient dimension of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jaswant K. Yadav , J. S. Bagla , Nishikanta Khandai

Fractional calculus represents a natural tool for describing relativistic phenomena in pseudo-Euclidean space-time. In this study, Fractional modified special relativity is presented. We obtain fractional generalized relation for the time…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Hosein Nasrolahpour

Observations of galaxies over large distances reveal the possibility of a fractal distribution of their positions. The source of fractal behavior is the lack of a length scale in the two body gravitational interaction. However, even with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet , Emmanuel Le Guirriec

The essentials of fractional calculus according to different approaches that can be useful for our applications in the theory of probability and stochastic processes are established. In addition to this, from this fractional integral one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Nicy Sebastian

A generalization of exterior calculus is considered by allowing the partial derivatives in the exterior derivative to assume fractional orders. That is, a fractional exterior derivative is defined. This is found to generate new vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen Cotrill-Shepherd , Mark Naber

In this letter we present an idea which reconciles a homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann universe with a fractal distribution of galaxies. We use two observational facts: The flat rotation curves of galaxies and the (still debated) fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Ruth Durrer , Francesco Sylos Labini

Fractal structures emerge from statistical and hierarchical processes in urban development or network evolution. In a class of efficient and robust geographical networks, we derive the size distribution of layered areas, and estimate the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Yukio Hayashi

While the universe becomes more and more homogeneous at large scales, statistical analysis of galaxy catalogs have revealed a fractal structure at small-scales (\lambda < 100 h^{-1} Mpc), with a fractal dimension D=1.5-2 (Sylos Labini et al…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 H. J. de Vega , N. Sánchez , F. Combes

The large scale distribution of galaxies in the universe displays a complex pattern of clusters, super-clusters, filaments and voids with sizes limited only by the boundaries of the available samples. A quantitative statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Francesco Sylos Labini , Luciano Pietronero

Complex systems (CS) are ubiquitous in nature. It is argued that fractional order (FO) calculus is more suitable to describe fractal systems. Motivated by the fractal space time theory some fractional generalizations of Scrodinger and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-01-26 Awatif M. Shahin , Elsayed Ahmed , Ahmed S. Elgazzar , Yassmin A. Omar

Cohesive particles form agglomerates that are usually very porous. Their geometry, particularly their fractal dimension, depends on the agglomeration process (diffusion-limited or ballistic growth by adding single particles or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-07 Dietrich E. Wolf , Thorsten Pöschel

The electrostatics properties of composite materials with fractal geometry are studied in the framework of fractional calculus. An electric field in a composite dielectric with a fractal charge distribution is obtained in the spherical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Emmanuel Baskin , Alexander Iomin

Fractional operators play an important role in modeling nonlocal phenomena and problems involving coarse-grained and fractal spaces. The fractional calculus of variations with functionals depending on derivatives and/or integrals of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Matheus J. Lazo , Delfim F. M. Torres

Context. A porous and/or fractal description can generally be applied where particles have undergone coagulation into aggregates. Aims. To characterise finite-sized, porous and fractal particles and to understand the possible limitations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-09 A. P. Jones

Using the apparatus of correlation Gamma-function (``conditional density''), we have analyzed spatial clustering of objects from several different samples of galaxies, clusters and superclusters. On small scales the distribution of objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Tikhonov , D. I. Makarov , A. I. Kopylov

One of the most well known random fractals is the so-called Fractal percolation set. This is defined as follows: we divide the unique cube in $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $M^d$ congruent sub-cubes. For each of these cubes a certain retention…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Károly Simon , Lajos Vágó

The clustering of galaxies is well characterized by fractal properties, with the presence of an eventual cross-over to homogeneity still a matter of considerable debate. In this letter we discuss the cosmological implications of a fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Joyce , P. W. Anderson , M. Montuori , L. Pietronero , F. Sylos Labini

This paper studies the effect of the distance choice in radial (non-average) statistical tools used for fractal characterization of galaxy distribution. After reviewing the basics of measuring distances of cosmological sources, various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Marcelo B. Ribeiro

Counts of galaxies as a function of apparent magnitude are among the most time-honored observations in cosmology. In this Letter, we focus on some statistical properties of these counts which are fundamental in order to characterize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Sylos Labini , Andrea Gabrielli

This paper provides a new model to compute the fractal dimension of a subset on a generalized-fractal space. Recall that fractal structures are a perfect place where a new definition of fractal dimension can be given, so we perform a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. A. Sánchez-Granero , Manuel Fernández-Martínez