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We propose a physical model for nonlinear stochastic biasing of one-point statistics resulting from the formation epoch distribution of dark halos. In contrast to previous works on the basis of extensive numerical simulations, our model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Atsushi Taruya , Yasushi Suto

The non-asymptotic tail bounds of random variables play crucial roles in probability, statistics, and machine learning. Despite much success in developing upper bounds on tail probability in literature, the lower bounds on tail…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Anru R. Zhang , Yuchen Zhou

Probability functions figure prominently in optimization problems of engineering. They may be nonsmooth even if all input data are smooth.This fact motivates the consideration of subdifferentials for such typically just continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Abderrahim Hantoute , René Henrion , Pedro Pérez-Aros

Primordial non-Gaussianity is a sensitive probe of the inflationary era, with a number of important theoretical targets living an order of magnitude beyond the reach of current CMB constraints. Maps of the large-scale structure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Daniel Baumann , Daniel Green

We study the non-linear evolution of the curvature perturbations during matter dominated era. We show that regardless of the origin of the primordial perturbation, the Bardeen potential and curvature receive sizable contributions from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

We provide an exact expression for the multi-variate joint probability distribution function of non-Gaussian fields primordially arising from local transformations of a Gaussian field. This kind of non-Gaussianity is generated in many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez , Luis Alvarez-Gaume , Alan F. Heavens , Sabino Matarrese

It has recently been proposed that the large-scale bias of dark matter halos depends sensitively on primordial non-Gaussianity of the local form. In this paper we point out that the strong scale dependence of the non-Gaussian halo bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Carlos Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Olivier Dore

In non-linear scales, the matter density distribution is not Gaussian. Consequently, the widely used two-point correlation function is not adequate anymore to capture the matter density field's entire behaviour. Among all statistics beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Zahra Baghkhani , Laya Ghodsi , Sina Taamoli , Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram

Time series of observables measured from complex systems do often exhibit non-normal statistics, their statistical distributions (PDF's) are not gaussian and often skewed, with roughly exponential tails. Departure from gaussianity is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-29 F. Sattin

The tails of prehistory probability density in nonlinear multistable stochastic systems driven by white Gaussian noise, which has been a subject of recent study, are analyzed by employing the concepts of nonstationary optimal fluctuations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. E. Vugmeister , J. Botina , H. Rabitz

We consider quantum diffusion in ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation. Using the $\Delta N$ formalism, we present the first stochastic calculation of the probability distribution $P(\mathcal{R})$ of the curvature perturbation during USR. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Daniel G. Figueroa , Sami Raatikainen , Syksy Rasanen , Eemeli Tomberg

We investigate the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities on halo number counts using N-body simulations with different values of $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$. We show how current theoretical models fail to adequately describe the non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Luca Fiorino , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Ariel G. Sanchez , Marco Baldi , Andrea Fiorilli , Lauro Moscardini

Experimental results for the evolution of the probability distribution function (PDF) of a scalar mixed by a turbulence flow in a channel are presented. The sequence of PDF from an initial skewed distribution to a sharp Gaussian is found to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antoine Venaille , Joel Sommeria

The evolution of probability distribution functions (PDFs) of continuous density, velocity and velocity derivatives ( deformation tensor) fields in the theory of cosmological gravitational instability are considered. We show that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

We consider the statistics of light amplitude fluctuations for the propagation of a laser beam subjected to multiple filamentation in an amplified Kerr media, with both linear and nonlinear dissipation. Dissipation arrests the catastrophic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-21 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova

Non-Gaussianities of dynamical origin are disentangled from primordial ones using the formalism of large deviation statistics with spherical collapse dynamics. This is achieved by relying on accurate analytical predictions for the one-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Cora Uhlemann , Enrico Pajer , Christophe Pichon , Takahiro Nishimichi , Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau

One of the principle efforts in cosmic microwave background (CMB) research is measurement of the parameter fnl that quantifies the departure from Gaussianity in a large class of non-minimal inflationary (and other) models. Estimators for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tristan L. Smith , Marc Kamionkowski , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We focus on variational inference in dynamical systems where the discrete time transition function (or evolution rule) is modelled by a Gaussian process. The dominant approach so far has been to use a factorised posterior distribution,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-17 Alessandro Davide Ialongo , Mark van der Wilk , James Hensman , Carl Edward Rasmussen

The formalism that describes the non-linear growth of the angular momentum L of protostructures from tidal torques in a Friedmann Universe, as developed in a previous paper, is extended to include non-Gaussian initial conditions. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Catelan , Tom Theuns

The power spectrum of weak lensing fluctuations has a non-Gaussian distribution due to its quadratic nature. On small scales the Central Limit Theorem acts to Gaussianize this distribution but non-Gaussianity in the signal due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Alex Hall , Andy Taylor