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Toy models for a mean field analysis

In this section two simple models are proposed to interpret the density and velocity distributions. The first is a hopping model with density-biased in and out probabilities, which reproduces the distribution of masses in the clusterized (as well as in the homogeneous) regime. The second is a mean field approximation of the effect of the collisions which predicts naturally a non-Gaussian distribution of velocities.



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Andrea Puglisi 2001-11-14