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I adopt a formalism previously developed by Catelan and Theuns (CT) in order to estimate the impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on the quasi-linear spin growth of cold dark matter protostructures. A variety of bispectrum shapes are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. Fedeli

We study structure formation in the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type with parameters f_NL and g_NL. We show that the distribution of dark-matter halos is naturally described by a multivariate bias scheme where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Tommaso Giannantonio , Cristiano Porciani

Local-type primordial non-gaussianity generates a distinctive term in the clustering of tracers of large-scale structure, behaving as $k^{-2}$ at small wavenumbers $k$. In order to use this signal in a sample of galaxies to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Neal Dalal , Will J. Percival

The probability density function (PDF) of flux $R$ is computed in systems with logarithmic non-linearity using a model non-linear dynamical equation. The PDF tails of the first moment flux are analytically predicted to be power law. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

This letter provides the first prediction of the probability density function (PDF) of flux $R$ in plasma sheath sheath region in magnetic fusion devices which is characterized by dynamical equations with exponential non-linearities. By…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

The probabilistic characterization of non-Markovian responses to nonlinear dynamical systems under colored excitation is an important issue, arising in many applications. Extending the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation, governing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Gerassimos A. Athanassoulis , Nikolaos P. Nikoletatos-Kekatos , Konstantinos Mamis

Due to gravitational instability, an initially Gaussian density field develops non-Gaussian features as the Universe evolves. The most prominent non-Gaussian features are massive haloes, visible as clusters of galaxies. The distortion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guido Kruse , Peter Schneider

Extreme events and the heavy tail distributions driven by them are ubiquitous in various scientific, engineering and financial research. They are typically associated with stochastic instability caused by hidden unresolved processes.…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Andrew J. Majda , Xin T. Tong

The analytic inference, e.g. predictive distribution being in closed form, may be an appealing benefit for machine learning practitioners when they treat wide neural networks as Gaussian process in Bayesian setting. The realistic widths,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-01 Chi-Ken Lu

We describe the methodology to include nonlinear evolution, including tidal effects, in the computation of subhalo distribution properties in both cold (CDM) and warm (WDM) dark matter universes. Using semi-analytic modeling, we include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Anthony R. Pullen , Andrew J. Benson , Leonidas A. Moustakas

q-Gaussian distribution appear in many science areas where we can find systems that could be described within a nonextensive framework. Usually, a way to assert that these systems belongs to nonextensive framework is by means of numerical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-03-21 Wagner S. de Lima , Emerson L. de Santa Helena

We apply the time-renormalization group approach to study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities in the non-linear evolution of cosmological dark matter density perturbations. This method improves the standard perturbation approach by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicola Bartolo , J. P. Beltran Almeida , Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni , Antonio Riotto

We study Newtonian cosmological perturbation theory from a field theoretical point of view. We derive a path integral representation for the cosmological evolution of stochastic fluctuations. Our main result is the closed form of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Keisuke Izumi , Jiro Soda

Experiments involving the two-dimensional passive diffusion of colloidal boomerangs tracked off their centre of mobility have shown striking non-Gaussian tails in their probability distribution function [Chakrabarty et al., Soft Matter 12,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-18 Lyndon Koens , Maciej Lisicki , Eric Lauga

We calculate the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density in non-linear regime of the gravitational evolution. Under the local approximation that the evolution of cosmic fluid fields can be characterized by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

This paper considers the topic of finding prior distributions when a major component of the statistical model depends on a nonlinear function. Using results on how to construct uniform distributions in general metric spaces, we propose a…

Computation · Statistics 2014-05-09 Björn Bornkamp

We analyze the non-Gaussianity for primordial curvature perturbations generated in multi-scalar slow-roll inflation model including the model with non-separable potential by making use of $\delta N$ formalism. Many authors have investigated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka

We use the delta N -formalism to investigate the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation in the curvaton scenario for the origin of structure. We numerically calculate the full probability distribution function allowing for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Misao Sasaki , Jussi Valiviita , David Wands

Aims: We outline the Bayesian approach to inferring f_NL, the level of non-Gaussianity of local type. Phrasing f_NL inference in a Bayesian framework takes advantage of existing techniques to account for instrumental effects and foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Michael D. Schneider

We investigate the effects of non-Gaussianity in the primordial density field on the reionization history. We rely on a semi-analytic method to describe the processes acting on the intergalactic medium (IGM), relating the distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 D. Crociani , L. Moscardini , M. Viel , S. Matarrese