Title: AGN - field galaxies association at high redshifts

Abstract:
In the local Universe active galaxies are frequently found in high density regions. This is 
because close galactic encounters boost chaotic movements of intragalactic matter what 
eventually increase gas supply for the SMBH at the galaxy center.
We test if this effect operates at higher redshifts using the distribution of AGNs in the 
COSMOS/SUBARU deep galaxy field. It is found that excess of galaxies around AGNs is higher 
than the average excess around normal galaxies  over the entire redshift range covered by the 
galaxy sample, i.e. up to z ~ 3.2.