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We have investigated the hypothesis that protogalaxies/protoclusters form at the sites of maxima in a primordial field of normally distributed density perturbations. Using a mixture of analytic and numerical techniques, we have studied the properties of the maxima, with the following results:
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Peacock et al. (1985) studied this question.
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