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The aim of this chapter is to compute the important equilibrium quantities of various environments relevant to model the cosmic web, and that will constitute the equilibria that we will perturb in the following chapters.
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Note however that, despite the relevance of this idea, it is not obvious that the background always shapes the profile as such, as Harford and Hamilton (2011) argue.
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Durrive, JB. (2017). Equilibrium States of Cosmic Walls and Filaments . In: Baryonic Processes in the Large-Scale Structuring of the Universe. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61881-4_6
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