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The Mesofractal Universe Driven by Rayleigh-Lèvy Walks

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The report is devoted to the description of the observed non-homogeneous structure of the Universe in terms of the walk model with a transition probability of the inverse power type called the Rayleigh-Lèvy (RL) walk. This model contains four free parameters. An appropriate choice of them yields the mesofractal structure, revealing fractal properties on small scales and looking like a homogeneous medium on large scales. This approach can be considered as some kind of descriptive statistics allowing to extract necessary characteristics of the structure using a few parameters.

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Uchaikin, V.V. The Mesofractal Universe Driven by Rayleigh-Lèvy Walks. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 1689–1717 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000032161.40474.80

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