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The cosmic web is one of the most complex systems in nature, consisting of galaxies and clusters of galaxies joined by filaments and walls, leaving large empty regions called cosmic voids. The most common method of describing the web is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jaan Einasto

The morphology of clusters of galaxies may be described with a set of parameters which contain information about the formation and evolutionary history of these systems. In this paper we present a preliminary study of the morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Strazzullo , M. Paolillo , G. Longo , E. Puddu , S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. De Carvalho , R. R. Gal

We analyze the structure and connectivity of the distinct morphologies that define the Cosmic Web. With the help of our Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF), we dissect the matter distribution of a cosmological $\Lambda$CDM N-body computer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

The concept of the cosmic web, viewing the Universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity, is deeply engrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about the most effective construction and the characteristics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 B. C. Coutinho , Sungryong Hong , Kim Albrecht , Arjun Dey , Albert-László Barabási , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

We present a new ansatz which can successfully be used to determine the morphological properties of the supercluster-void network. The ansatz is based on a surface modelling scheme SURFGEN, which generates a triangulated surface from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jatush V. Sheth , Varun Sahni , Sergei F. Shandarin , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We propose a decision criterion for segmenting the cosmic web into different structure types (voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters) on the basis of their respective probabilities and the strength of data constraints. Our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Benjamin Wandelt

The cosmic web is one of the most striking features of the distribution of galaxies and dark matter on the largest scales in the Universe. It is composed of dense regions packed full of galaxies, long filamentary bridges, flattened sheets…

It is now well accepted that the galaxies are distributed in filaments, sheets and clusters all of which form an interconnected network known as the Cosmic Web. It is a big challenge to quantify the shapes of the interconnected structural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-02 Prakash Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

The empirical results suggest that the learnability of a neural network is directly related to its size. To mathematically prove this, we borrow a tool in topological algebra: Betti numbers to measure the topological geometric complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ji Yang , Lu Sang , Daniel Cremers

This article gives the construction and complete classification of all three-dimensional spherical manifolds, and orders them by decreasing volume, in the context of multiconnected universe models with positive spatial curvature. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Evelise Gausmann , Roland Lehoucq , Jean-Pierre Luminet , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Jeffrey Weeks

The topology of any complex system is key to understanding its structure and function. Fundamentally, algebraic topology guarantees that any system represented by a network can be understood through its closed paths. The length of each path…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-17 Pierre-André G. Maugis , Sofia C. Olhede , Patrick J. Wolfe

The morphology of galaxy clusters is quantified using Minkowski functionals, especially the vector-valued ones, which contain directional information and are related to curvature centroids. The asymmetry of clusters and the amount of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claus Beisbart , Thomas Buchert

We provide an informal discussion of pattern formation in a finite universe. The global size and shape of the universe is revealed in the pattern of hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background. Topological pattern formation can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janna Levin , Imogen Heard

This is a written version of a talk given at the Fifth Friedmann Seminar on recent work in Observational Cosmic Topology done in partial collaboration with Armando Bernui. We address three relevant questions related to the search for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. I. Gomero

Studying the structures (halos and galaxies) within the cosmic environments (void, sheet, filament, and node) where they reside is an ongoing attempt in cosmological studies. The link between the properties of structures and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Hossein Hatamnia , Shant Baghram

The space-like hypersurface of the Universe at the present cosmological time is a three-dimensional manifold. A non-trivial global topology of this space-like hypersurface would imply that the apparently observable universe (the sphere of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Boudewijn F. Roukema , Vincent Blanloeil

Clustering aims to form groups of similar data points in an unsupervised regime. Yet, clustering complex datasets containing critically intertwined shapes poses significant challenges. The prevailing clustering algorithms widely depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Arghya Pratihar , Kushal Bose , Swagatam Das

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

We study how the topology of feature embedding space changes as it passes through the layers of a well-trained deep neural network (DNN) through Betti numbers. Motivated by existing studies using simplicial complexes on shallow fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Suryaka Suresh , Bishshoy Das , Vinayak Abrol , Sumantra Dutta Roy

In Network Science node neighbourhoods, also called ego-centered networks have attracted large attention. In particular the clustering coefficient has been extensively used to measure their local cohesiveness. In this paper, we show how,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-22 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Ginestra Bianconi