Gravitational Nonlocality and Large Scale Structure

Gravitational nonlocality effects at large scale can be investigated using the cosmological structure formation. In particular, it is possible to show if and how gravitational nonlocality modifies the clustering properties of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies. The thermodynamics of such systems can be used to obtain important information about the effects of such lager scale nonlocality on clustering. We will compare the effects of such larger scale nonlocality with observational data. It will be demonstrated that the observations seem to point to a characteristic scale of nonlocality of the gravitational interactions at galactic scales. However, at larger scales such statistical inferences are much weaker.