Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 41 3 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
The galaxy-conditioned neighbour count is the integral of the conditional number density , rather than of alone. For a power law with ,With the specified , , and , the factors of cancel andA uniformly chosen point in space is not conditioned to lie on a galaxy. Its expected value is simply the mean number density times the volume:The difference is the clustering excess. The first count means other galaxies; including the chosen central galaxy adds one. Although the assumed galaxy two-point correlation function diverges at , its contribution is integrable here because is constant.