Fluctuations and correlations in the string clustering approach.

The fluctuations due to the clustering of color sources can explain the behaviour of the scaled multiplicity variance and transverse momentum fluctuations with centrality. They also predict a nonmonotonic behaviour with centrality for the multiplicity associated to high-_pT events. The clustering of color sources gives rise to an increase in the long-range correlations with centrality as well as to a supression at high centrality with respect to superposition models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]