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Within the context of hierarchical scenarios of gravitational structure formation we describe how an evolving hierarchy of voids evolves on the basis of two processes, the void-in-void process and the void-in-cloud process. The related analytical formulation in terms of a two-barrier excursion problem leads to a self-similarly evolving peaked void size distribution.
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van de Weygaert, R., Sheth, R. (2004). Void Hierarchy and Cosmic Structure. In: Plionis, M. (eds) Multiwavelength Cosmology. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48570-2_47
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