Structure Formation in the One Dimensional Gravitational Gas

Muriel, A., Carino, A. M., & Carino, R.L. (1998). Structure Formation in the One Dimensional Gravitational Gas. Astronomy and Astrophysics. Springer. 334, 746-749.

We adopt a new result in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to follow the time evolution of the density of an exploding one-dimensional gravitational gas. We show analytically that the resulting structure formation is a natural consequence of many-body physics.