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Genus Statistics of the Large-Scale Structure with Non-Gaussian Density Fields

Astrophysics 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

As a statistical measure to quantify the topological structure of the large-scale structure in the universe, the genus number is calculated for a number of non-Gaussian distributions in which the density field is characterized by a nontrivial function of some Gaussian-distributed random numbers. As a specific example, the formulae for the lognormal and the chi-square distributions are derived and compared with the results of NN-body simulations together with the previously known formulae for the Gaussian distribution and second-order perturbation theory. It is shown that the lognormal formula fits most of the simulation data the best.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9509086,
  title  = {Genus Statistics of the Large-Scale Structure with Non-Gaussian Density Fields},
  author = {Takahiko Matsubara and Jun'ichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9509086},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures are available upon request from [email protected]