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Is the periodicity in the distribution of quasar red shifts an evidence of multiply connected universe?

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The periodicity in the distribution of quasar red shifts is interpreted assuming that the cosmological space is a topologically compactified manifold like the three-dimensional torus. The present size of such compact space is estimated as the order of 600 Mpc.

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  1. Astrophysics Research Division, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Li Zhi Fang & Humitaka Sato

  2. Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University, 606, Kyoto, Japan

    Humitaka Sato

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This essay received the first award from the Gravity Research Foundation for the year 1985-Ed.

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Fang, L.Z., Sato, H. Is the periodicity in the distribution of quasar red shifts an evidence of multiply connected universe?. Gen Relat Gravit 17, 1117–1120 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00774212

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