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This paper presents a simple model for such processes as chaos spreading or turbulence spillover into stable regions. In this simple model the essential transport occurs via inelastic resonant interactions of waves on a lattice. The process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin , Jens Juul Rasmussen

We generalize the spherical collapse model for the formation of bound objects to apply in a Universe with arbitrary positive cosmological constant. We calculate the critical condition for collapse of an overdense region and give exact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ewa L. Lokas , Yehuda Hoffman

Semi-analytical methods, based on Eulerian perturbation theory, are a promising tool to follow the time evolution of cosmological perturbations at small redshifts and at mildly nonlinear scales. All these schemes are based on two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Massimo Pietroni , Gianpiero Mangano , Ninetta Saviano , Matteo Viel

Excursion set theory, where density perturbations evolve stochastically with the smoothing scale, provides a method for computing the mass function of cosmological structures like dark matter halos, sheets and filaments. The computation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 Andrea De Simone , Michele Maggiore , Antonio Riotto

Cosmological linear perturbation theory predicts that the peculiar velocity $V(x)$ and the matter overdensity $\delta(x)$ at a same point $x$ are statistically independent quantities, as log as the initial density fluctuations are random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoki Seto

In this work we investigate the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Brusselator system. Through linear stability analysis of the basic solution we determine the Turing and the oscillatory instability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino , V. Sciacca

This study in centered on models accounting for stochastic deformations of sample paths of random walks, embedded either in $\mathbb{Z}^2$ or in $\mathbb{Z}^3$. These models are immersed in multi-type particle systems with exclusion.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

A new approach to maximum likelihood learning of discrete graphical models and RBM in particular is introduced. Our method, Perturb and Descend (PD) is inspired by two ideas (I) perturb and MAP method for sampling (II) learning by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Russell Greiner , Brendan Frey

We calculate the power spectrum of density fluctuations in the statistical non-equilibrium field theory for classical, microscopic degrees of freedom to first order in the interaction potential. We specialise our result to cosmology by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-07 Matthias Bartelmann , Felix Fabis , Daniel Berg , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Celia Viermann

Perturbation theory is a powerful tool for studying large-scale structure formation in the universe and calculating observables such as the power spectrum or bispectrum. However, beyond linear order, typically this is done by assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Nicholas Choustikov , Zvonimir Vlah , Anthony Challinor

We describe a simple fully analytic model of the excursion set approach associated with two Gaussian random walks: the first walk represents the initial overdensity around a protohalo, and the second is a crude way of allowing for other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Emanuele Castorina , Ravi K. Sheth

We present new perturbation theory (PT) predictions in the Spherical Collapse (SC) model for the 2-point moments of the large-scale distribution of dark matter density in the universe. We assume that these fluctuations grow under gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Gaztanaga , P. Fosalba , R. A. C. Croft

We present a new fast and efficient approach to model structure formation with Augmented Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (ALPT). Our method is based on splitting the displacement field into a long and a short-range component. The long-range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Steffen Heß

Stellar deformations play a significant role in the dynamical evolution of stars in binary systems, impacting the tidal dissipation and the outcomes of mass transfer processes. The prevalent method for modelling the deformations and tidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-08 L. Fellay , M. -A. Dupret , S. Rosu

Spatial distribution of the human population is distinctly heterogeneous, e.g. showing significant difference in the population density between urban and rural areas. In the historical perspective, i.e. on the timescale of centuries, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-08-30 Anna Zincenko , Sergei Petrovskii , Vitaly Volpert

A non-perturbative random-matrix theory is applied to the transmission of a monochromatic scalar wave through a disordered waveguide. The probability distributions of the transmittances T_{mn} and T_n=\sum_m T_{mn} of an incident mode n are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. van Langen , P. W. Brouwer , C. W. J. Beenakker

Among various analytic approximations for the growth of density fluctuations in the expanding Universe, Zel'dovich approximation and its extensions in Lagrangian scheme are known to be accurate even in mildly non-linear regime. The aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ayako Yoshisato , Takahiko Matsubara , Masahiro Morikawa

This study is concerned with destruction of Anderson localization by a nonlinearity of the power-law type. We suggest using a nonlinear Schr\"odinger model with random potential on a lattice that quadratic nonlinearity plays a dynamically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-30 A. V. Milovanov , A. Iomin

We present a general framework to treat the evolution of one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density $\delta$ and velocity-divergence fields $\theta$. In particular, we derive an evolution equation for the one-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

Smoothing operation to make continuous density field from observed point-like distribution of galaxies is crucially important for topological or morphological analysis of the large-scale structure, such as, the genus statistics or the area…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Naoki Seto