Distribution of quasars and formation of large-scale structures

According to the proposal developed by Fanget al. (1984, referred to as Paper I) on formation of large-scale structure in the Universe, we should expect that:

1. The distributions of quasars should be different from that of galaxies by no strong inhomogeneity on the scale of 10–100 Mpc.
2. The distributions of quasars withZ>2 andZ<2 should be different from each other with no large-scale structure in the former, and conversely in the latter.

Our various statistical results obtained from quasar distributions are consistent with these predictions. Particularly, the nearest neighbour test for the complete quasar sample given by Savage and Bolton (1979) clearly shows that the distribution ofZ>2 quasars is rather homogeneous while theZ<2 quasars have a tendency to cluster.