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In order to understand the Galactic structure, we perform a statistical analysis of the distribution of various cluster parameters based on an almost complete sample of Galactic open clusters yet available. The geometrical and physical…

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The large scale distribution of galaxies in the universe displays a complex pattern of clusters, super-clusters, filaments and voids with sizes limited only by the boundaries of the available samples. A quantitative statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Francesco Sylos Labini , Luciano Pietronero

Studies of disordered heterogeneous media and galaxy cosmology share a common goal: analyzing the distribution of particles at `microscales' to predict physical properties at `macroscales', whether for a liquid, composite material, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Salvatore Torquato

We determine the spatial distribution function of galaxies from a wide range of samples in the 2MASS survey. The results agree very well with the form of the distribution predicted by the theory of cosmological gravitational many-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory R. Sivakoff , William C. Saslaw

The aggregation of particles in the free molecular regime is determined approximately for situations with a high degree of translational energy equilibration. The mean particle sizes develop linearly in time. Scaling relations are used to…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2024-01-10 Klavs Hansen

A theoretical framework is developed to describe the transformation that distributes probability density functions uniformly over space. In one dimension, the cumulative distribution can be used, but does not generalize to higher…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Eric Kee

The distribution of visible matter in the universe, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters, has its origin in the week fluctuations of density that existed at the epoch of recombination. The hierarchical distribution of the universe, with its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet , Yui Shiozawa

The probability distributions of the masses of the clusters spanning from top to bottom of a percolating lattice at the percolation threshold are obtained in all dimensions from two to five. The first two cumulants and the exponents for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Parongama Sen

A theory of structure is formulated for systems of many structureless classical particles with stable local interactions in Euclidean space. Such systems are shown to have their structure in thermodynamic equilibrium determined exactly by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-12 John Çamkıran , Fabian Parsch , Glenn D. Hibbard

When split conformal prediction operates in batch mode with exchangeable data, we determine the exact distribution of the empirical coverage of prediction sets produced for a finite batch of future observables, as well as the exact…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Paulo C. Marques F

Consider random matrices $A$, of dimension $m\times (m+n)$, drawn from an ensemble with probability density $f(\rmtr AA^\dagger)$, with $f(x)$ a given appropriate function. Break $A = (B,X)$ into an $m\times m$ block $B$ and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Joshua Feinberg

Using a measure of clustering derived from the nearest neighbour distribution and the void probability function we are able to distinguish between regular and clustered structures. With an example we show that regularity is a property of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Kerscher

Clustering algorithms aim to organize data into groups or clusters based on the inherent patterns and similarities within the data. They play an important role in today's life, such as in marketing and e-commerce, healthcare, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hui Yin , Amir Aryani , Stephen Petrie , Aishwarya Nambissan , Aland Astudillo , Shengyuan Cao

Research done during the previous century established our Standard Cosmological Model. There are many details still to be filled in, but few would seriously doubt the basic premise. Past surveys have revealed that the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernard J. T. Jones , Vicent J. Martinez , Enn Saar , Virginia Trimble

The mass distribution of galaxy clusters can be determined from the study of the projected phase-space distribution of cluster galaxies. The main advantage of this method as compared to others, is that it allows determination of cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Andrea Biviano

Calculation of the distribution of the average value of a Gaussian random field in a finite domain is carried out for different cases. The results of the calculation demonstrate a strong dependence of the width of the distribution on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 S. V. Novikov , M. Van der Auweraer

Two distinct distribution functions $P_{sp}(m)$ and $P_{ns}(m)$ of the scaled largest cluster sizes $m$ are obtained at the percolation threshold by numerical simulations, depending on the condition whether the lattice is actually spanned…

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Periodic orbits in chaotic systems form clusters, whose elements traverse approximately the same points of the phase space. The distribution of cluster sizes depends on the length n of orbits and the parameter p which controls closeness of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Boris Gutkin , Vladimir Al. Osipov

We numerically investigate the long--time evolution of density perturbations after the first appearance of caustics in an expanding cosmological model with one--dimensional `single--wave' initial conditions. Focussing on the time--intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taihei Yano , Hiroko Koyama , Thomas Buchert , Naoteru Gouda

Let X be a real or complex Hilbert space of finite but large dimension d, let S(X) denote the unit sphere of X, and let u denote the normalized uniform measure on S(X). For a finite subset B of S(X), we may test whether it is approximately…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Sheldon Goldstein , Joel L. Lebowitz , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghi