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Evolution of fractality in space plasmas of interest to geomagnetic activity
Víctor Muñoz
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Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Macarena Domínguez
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Juan Alejandro Valdivia
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Centro para la Nanociencia y la Nanotecnología, CEDENNA, Santiago, Chile
Simon Good
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
Giuseppina Nigro
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy
Vincenzo Carbone
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy
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Fractals are self-similar objects (which look the same at all scales), whose dimensions can be noninteger. They are mathematical concepts, useful to describe various physical systems, as the fractal dimension is a measure of their complexity. In this paper we study how these concepts can be applied to some problems in space plasmas, such as the activity of the Earth's magnetosphere, simulations of plasma turbulence, or identification of magnetic structures ejected from the Sun.
Fractals are self-similar objects (which look the same at all scales), whose dimensions can be...
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