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The past decade has witnessed remarkable progress in our understanding of the development of structure in the Universe. The amplitude of matter fluctuations has been measured over more than four decades of length scale, from the size of the observable Universe itself to galactic scale sizes. Although cosmologists argue over a factor of two in the relative normalization of large-scale and small-scale structure amplitudes, and whether all the data is consistent with standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM), there is little question about the basic hierarchical nature of structure formation. A few elementary considerations of such theories are summarized in this brief presentation.
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Davis, M. (1993). The Formation of Galaxies. In: Shull, J.M., Thronson, H.A. (eds) The Environment and Evolution of Galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1882-8_3
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