2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10041The partition function of a system of galaxies in gravitational interaction can be cast in an Ising Model form, and this reformulated via a Hubbard--Stratonovich transformation into a three dimensional stochastic and classical scalar field theory, whose critical exponents are calculable and known. This allows one to {\it compute\/} the galaxy to galaxy correlation function, whose non--integer exponent is predicted to be between 1.530 and 1.862, to be compared with the phenomenological value of 1.6 to 1.8.Uses RevTeX 3.0AstrophysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext