Scale dependent dimension of luminous matter in the universe

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4215-4218

  Bak, Per ^a,b   Chen, Kan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FRACTALS; GALAXIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LUMINOUS MATTER; UNIVERSE;

LUMINOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0035820774     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4215     Document Type: Article

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