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We study the statistical properties of the eigenvalues of the primordial tidal and deformation tensor for random Gaussian cosmic density fields. With the tidal and deformation tensors, Hessians of the gravitational and velocity potential,…

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The geometric approach to optimal transport and information theory has triggered the interpretation of probability densities as an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The most studied Riemannian structures are Otto's metric, yielding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

In the present work we consider the behavior of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of the 2-torus $T^2$ for an arbitrary Riemannian metric. A natural non-negative quantity which measures the complexity of the geodesic flow is the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-07-01 Eva Glasmachers , Gerhard Knieper

It is known that the large-scale structure (LSS) mapped by a galaxy redshift survey is subject to distortions by galaxies' peculiar velocities. Besides the signatures generated in common N-point statistics, such as the anisotropy in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Aoxiang Jiang , Wei Liu , Wenjuan Fang , Wen Zhao

Topological insulators (TIs) are materials that are insulating in the bulk but have zero band gap surface states with linear dispersion and are protected by time reversal symmetry. These unique characteristics could pave the way for many…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Thomas K. Reid , S. Pamir Alpay , Alexander V. Balatsky , Sanjeev K. Nayak

Phase singularities as topological objects of wave fields appear in a variety of physical, chemical, and biological scenarios. In this paper, by making use of the $\phi$-mapping topological current theory, we study the topological…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi-Shi Duan , Ji-Rong Ren , Tao Zhu

The morphological properties of large scale structure of the Universe can be fully described by four Minkowski functionals (MFs), which provide important complementary information to other statistical observables such as the widely used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Wenjuan Fang , Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao

The Betti numbers of moduli spaces of representations of a universal central extension of a surface group in the groups U(2,1) and SU(2,1) are calculated. The results are obtained using the identification of these moduli spaces with moduli…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter B. Gothen

Two types of Gaussian processes, namely the Gaussian field with generalized Cauchy covariance (GFGCC) and the Gaussian sheet with generalized Cauchy covariance (GSGCC) are considered. Some of the basic properties and the asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-28 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

As a statistical measure to quantify the topological structure of the large-scale structure in the universe, the genus number is calculated for a number of non-Gaussian distributions in which the density field is characterized by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Takahiko Matsubara , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Density functions that represent sample data are often multimodal, i.e. they exhibit more than one maximum. Typically this behavior is taken to indicate that the underlying data deserves a more detailed representation as a mixture of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-04 Steve Huntsman

We recall first Gallai-simplicial complex $\Delta_{\Gamma}(G)$ associated to Gallai graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a planar graph $G$. The Euler characteristic is a very useful topological and homotopic invariant to classify surfaces. In Theorems 3.2…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Imran Ahmed , Shahid Muhmood

In this article, we study topological properties of Voisin's punctual Hilbert schemes of an almost-complex fourfold $X$. In this setting, we compute their Betti numbers and construct Nakajima operators. We also define tautological bundles…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Julien Grivaux

We apply some basic notions from combinatorial topology to establish various algebraic properties of edge ideals of graphs and more general Stanley-Reisner rings. In this way we provide new short proofs of some theorems from the literature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-23 Anton Dochtermann , Alexander Engstrom

We study the homology of an explicit finite-index subgroup of the automorphism group of a partially commutative group, in the case when its defining graph is a tree. More concretely, we give a lower bound on the first Betti number of this…

We propose and support the possibility that the shape of topological density 2-point function in pure-glue QCD is crucially, and possibly entirely, determined by the space-time folding (geometry) of the double-sheet sign-coherent structure…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-21 Ivan Horvath , Andrei Alexandru , Thomas Streuer

2-point topological charge correlation functions of several types of geometric singularity in gaussian random fields are calculated explicitly, using a general scheme: zeros of $n$-dimensional random vectors, signed by the sign of their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 M. R. Dennis

We consider the behavior of classical and quantum oscillations in metals with complex Fermi surfaces near the directions of $\, {\bf B} \, $ corresponding to changes in the topological structure of the dynamical system describing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Ya. Maltsev

In our recent work we described conditions under which a multi-parameter random simplicial complex is connected and simply connected. We showed that the Betti numbers of multi-parameter random simplicial complexes in one specific dimension…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-17 A. Costa , M. Farber

We consider the model of complex hyperbranched polymer structures formed on the basis of scale-free graphs, where functionalities (degrees) $k$ of nodes obey a power law decaying probability $p(k)\sim{k^{-\alpha}}$. Such polymer topologies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-16 V. Blavatska , Yu. Holovatch