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Hyperuniform systems are distinguished by an unusually strong suppression of large-scale density fluctuations and, consequently, display a high degree of uniformity at the largest length scales. In some cases, however, enhanced uniformity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Carlo Vanoni , Paul J. Steinhardt , Salvatore Torquato

The concept of splitting tessellations and splitting tessellation processes in spherical spaces of dimension $d\geq 2$ is introduced. Expectations, variances and covariances of spherical curvature measures induced by a splitting…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Daniel Hug , Christoph Thaele

When modeling directional data, that is, unit-norm multivariate vectors, a first natural question is to ask whether the directions are uniformly distributed or, on the contrary, whether there exist modes of variation significantly different…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-04 Eduardo García-Portugués , Thomas Verdebout

The proof of the theorem, which states that the Euclidean metric on the set of random points in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space with the distribution of a special class, converges in probability in the limit $n\rightarrow\infty$ to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Alexander P. Zubarev

Many algorithms require discriminative boundaries, such as separating hyperplanes or hyperballs, or are specifically designed to work on spherical data. By applying inversive geometry, we show that the two discriminative boundaries can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Erik Thordsen , Erich Schubert

Clustering, as an unsupervised technique, plays a pivotal role in various data analysis applications. Among clustering algorithms, Spectral Clustering on Euclidean Spaces has been extensively studied. However, with the rapid evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sagar Ghosh , Swagatam Das

Hyperuniform point patterns are characterized by vanishing infinite wavelength density fluctuations and encompass all crystal structures, certain quasi-periodic systems, and special disordered point patterns. This article generalizes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Chase E. Zachary , Salvatore Torquato

The results of a numerical investigation of fluidized beds of spherical particles in a narrow vertical cylindrical pipe, with particular attention to the spontaneous settling along the wall, are reported. Starting from a steady fluidized…

Connecting the collective behavior of disordered systems with local structure on the particle scale is an important challenge, for example in granular and glassy systems. Compounding complexity, in many scientific and industrial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-21 Fabian M. Schaller , Robert F. B. Weigel , Sebastian C. Kapfer

Disordered systems like liquids, gels, glasses, or granular materials are not only ubiquitous in daily life and in industrial applications but they are also crucial for the mechanical stability of cells or the transport of chemical and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-06 Zhen Zhang , Walter Kob

We derive the multiparticle-correlation expansion of the excess entropy of classical particles in the canonical ensemble using a new approach that elucidates the rationale behind each term in the expansion. This formula provides the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-25 S. Prestipino , P. V. Giaquinta

Spherically embedded time series are time series with values naturally residing on or can be equivalently mapped to the sphere. Despite their ubiquity in diverse scientific fields, these data frequently exhibit complex non-stationarity…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Jiazhen Xu , Han Lin Shang

We relate the structure factor $S(\mathbf{k} \to \mathbf{0})$ in a system of jammed hard spheres of number density $\rho$ to its complexity per particle $\Sigma(\rho)$ by the formula $S(\mathbf{k} \to \mathbf{0})=-1/…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-21 M. J. Godfrey , M. A. Moore

We introduce and study the spherical dimension, a natural topological relaxation of the VC dimension that unifies several results in learning theory where topology plays a key role in the proofs. The spherical dimension is defined by…

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Unmeasured, spatially-structured factors can confound associations between spatial environmental exposures and health outcomes. Adding flexible splines to a regression model is a simple approach for spatial confounding adjustment, but the…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-22 Joshua P. Keller , Adam A. Szpiro

Efficient particle sorting in microfluidic systems is vital for advancements in biomedical diagnostics and industrial applications. This study numerically investigates particle migration and passive sorting in symmetric serpentine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-16 Sayan Karmakar , Anish Pal , Sourav Sarkar , Achintya Mukhopadhyay

Questions surrounding the spatial disposition of particles in various condensed-matter systems continue to pose many theoretical challenges. This paper explores the geometric availability of amorphous many-particle configurations that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Torquato , F. H. Stillinger

This paper develops a systematic and geometric theory of optimal quantization on the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$, focusing on finite uniform probability distributions supported on the spherical surface - rather than on lower-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

A wide variety of real random composites can be studied by means of prototypes of multiphase microstructures with a controllable spatial inhomogeneity. To create them, we propose a versatile model of randomly overlapping super-spheres of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 D. Frączek , R. Piasecki , W. Olchawa , R. Wiśniowski