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We generalize the maximum likelihood method to non-Gaussian distribution functions by means of the multivariate Edgeworth expansion. We stress the potential interest of this technique in all those cosmological problems in which the…

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The tail of the distribution of primordial fluctuations (corresponding to the likelihood of realization of large fluctuations) is of interest, from both theoretical and observational perspectives. In particular, it is relevant for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Sina Hooshangi , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Mahdiyar Noorbala

In this paper, we consider a stochastic system described by a differential equation admitting a spatially varying random coefficient. The differential equation has been employed to model various static physics systems such as elastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Jingchen Liu , Xiang Zhou

Recent work has shown that the local non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL induces a scale-dependent bias, whose amplitude is growing with scale. Here we first rederive this result within the context of peak-background split formalism and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Anze Slosar , Christopher Hirata , Uros Seljak , Shirley Ho , Nikhil Padmanabhan

We compute the probability density distribution of maxima for a scalar random field in the presence of local non-gaussianities. The physics outcome of this analysis is the following. If we focus on maxima whose curvature is larger than a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Flavio Riccardi , Marco Taoso , Alfredo Urbano

We establish the convergence of the densities of a sequence of nonlinear functionals of an underlying Gaussian process to the density of a Gamma distribution. The key idea of our work is a new density formula for random variables in the…

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We prove Central Limit Theorems and Stein-like bounds for the asymptotic behaviour of nonlinear functionals of spherical Gaussian eigenfunctions. Our investigation combine asymptotic analysis of higher order moments for Legendre polynomials…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Domenico Marinucci , Igor Wigman

We study the sensitivity of weak lensing by large scale structures to the evolution of dark energy. We explore a 2-parameters model of dark energy evolution, inspired by tracking quintessence models. To this end, we compute the likelihood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Karim Benabed , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

We study the cosmological information contained in the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of weak gravitational lensing convergence maps. We show that the MFs provide strong constraints on the local type primordial non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Takashi Hamana , Takahiro Nishimichi

We study the evolution of simulated disk galaxies in the context of a nonlocal theory of gravity. In this theory the appearance of the dark matter problem in cosmology and astrophysics is a manifestation of the nonlocality of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-08 Mahmood Roshan , Sohrab Rahvar

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks with widespread applications across machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. While current research has predominantly focused on linear diffusions, these…

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In our previous work the nonlinearity parameter f_NL, which characterizes nongaussianity in the cosmic microwave background, was estimated for a class of inflationary models based on nonlocal field theory. These models include p-adic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-25 Neil Barnaby , James M. Cline

The strong dependence of the large-scale dark matter halo bias on the (local) non-Gaussianity parameter, f_NL, offers a promising avenue towards constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with large-scale structure surveys. In this paper, we…

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We present a method to implement relativistic corrections to the evolution of dark matter structures in Newtonian simulations of a LCDM universe via the initial conditions. We take the nonlinear correspondence between the Lagrangian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Miguel Enríquez , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Octavio Valenzuela

Non-Gaussian nature of the probability distribution of particles' displacements in the supercooled temperature regime in glass-forming liquids are believed to be one of the major hallmarks of glass transition. It is already been established…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik , Indrajit Tah , Smarajit Karmakar

We propose to constrain the primordial (local-type) non-Gaussianity signal by first reconstructing the initial density field to remove the late time non-Gaussianities introduced by gravitational evolution. Our reconstruction algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Xinyi Chen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The late-time effect of primordial non-Gaussianity offers a window into the physics of inflation and the very early Universe. In this work we study the consequences of a particular class of primordial non-Gaussianity that is fully…

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We compute statistical properties of weak gravitational lensing by large-scale structure in three Cold Dark Matter models. We use a P$^3$M $N$-body code to simulate the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe. We…

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This paper examines the growth of dark matter and dark energy perturbations within a non-canonical scalar field model characterized by an exponential potential. Through dynamical system analysis, we identify critical points and track the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Kayoomars Karami