Large Scale Distribution of Matter in the Universe

  • Vladimir Igorevich Arnold

Abstract

At the present time the distribution of matter in the universe is highly non-uniform (there are planets, the sun, stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on). Astrophysists nowadays suggest that in earlier stages of the development of the universe there was no such non-uniformity. How did it come about? Zel’dovich in 1970 proposed an explanation of the formation of particle clusters that is mathematically equivilent to the analysis the formation of singularities of caustics.

Keywords

Velocity Field Particle Cluster Particle Medium Catastrophe Theory Density Graph 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1984

Authors and Affiliations

  • Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of MathematicsUniversity of MoscowMoscowUSSR

Personalised recommendations