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Stochastic gravitational fluctuations of stellar or galactic systems with a fractal distribution of field sources
Authors:Marcel O Vlad
Institution:(1) Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D 52425 Jülich, Germany;(2) Present address: Centre for Mathematical Statistics, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bd. Magheru 22, 70158 Bucuresti 22, Romania
Abstract:The stochastic gravitational fluctuations for a fractal mass distribution are analyzed by means of a functional integral approach. A general method is developed for evaluating the stochastic properties of vectorial additive random fields generated by a variable number of point sources obeying inhomogeneous Poisson statistics. A closed expression for the generating functional of the field is given in terms of the generating functional of the sources. The moments of the resulting vectorial field are finite if the correlation functions of the sources have short tails. In this case all cumulants of the field can be computed exactly: they are averages of the central moments of sources computed in terms of the probability density of the position of a source. The method is applied for analyzing the stochastic gravitational fluctuations generated by a fractal distribution of field sources (stars or galaxies). For a Newtonian force law the correlation functions of the sources are slowly decaying, the cumulants of the stochastic gravitational field are infinite and the probability density of the field intensityF is given by a Lévy fractal stable law with a scaling exponentH depending on the fractal dimensiond f of the distribution of stars or galaxies:H =d f /2.
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