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The Lagrangian dynamics of a single fluid element within a self-gravitational matter field is intrinsically non-local due to the presence of the tidal force. This complicates the theoretical investigation of the non-linear evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay

A probability density function (pdf) encodes the entire stochastic knowledge about data distribution, where data may represent stochastic observations in robotics, transition state pairs in reinforcement learning or any other empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Dmitry Kopitkov , Vadim Indelman

We introduce a conditional pair distribution function (CPDF) which characterizes the probability density of finding an object (e.g., a particle in a fluid) to certain distance of other, with each of these two having a nearest neighbor to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 René D. Rohrmann , Ernesto Zurbriggen

We develop an accurate and computationally efficient emulator to model the gravitational lensing magnification probability distribution function (PDF), enabling robust cosmological inference of point sources such as supernovae and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Tunç Türker , Valerio Marra , Tiago Castro , Miguel Quartin , Stefano Borgani

The Velocity Gradients Technique (VGT) and the Probability Density Functions (PDFs) of mass density are tools to study turbulence, magnetic fields, and self-gravity in molecular clouds. However, self-absorption can significantly make the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian

In the present study, we use the DES Y3 catalog of LRG to incorporate the realistic galaxies' redshift Probability Distribution Function(PDF) into the correlation function cosmological model. We used four different photo-z estimators ANNz2,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We study the effect of impermeable boundaries on the symmetry properties of a random passive scalar field advected by random flows. We focus on a broad class of nonlinear shear flows multiplied by a stationary, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 R. Camassa , L. Ding , Z. Kilic , R. M. McLaughlin

Context. The overdensity inside a cosmological sub-volume and the tidal fields from its surroundings affect the matter distribution of the region. The resulting difference between the local and global power spectra is characterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , István Csabai

We investigate the behavior of the magnetic pressure, $b^2$, in fully turbulent MHD flows in ``1+2/3'' dimensions by means of its effect on the probability density function (PDF) of the density field. We start by reviewing our previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Thierry Passot

(abridged version) The separate universe conjecture states that in General Relativity a density perturbation behaves locally (i.e. on scales much smaller than the wavelength of the mode) as a separate universe with different background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Liang Dai , Enrico Pajer , Fabian Schmidt

An important idea underlying a plausible dynamical theory of circulation in three-dimensional turbulence is the so-called Area Rule, according to which the probability density function (PDF) of the circulation around closed loops depends…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-22 Kartik P. Iyer , Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

We analyze different volume-limited samples extracted from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2), using counts-in-cells to compute the Count Probability Distribution Function (CPDF).From the CPDF we derive volume-averaged correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Benoist , A. Cappi , L. N. da Costa , S. Maurogordato , F. R. Bouchet , R. Schaeffer

Signal processing techniques will lean on blind methods in the near future, where no redundant, resource allocating information will be transmitted through the channel. To achieve a proper decision, however, it is essential to know at least…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ferenc Balázs , Sándor Imre

This paper proposes a comprehensive and unprecedented framework that streamlines the derivation of exact, compact -- yet tractable -- solutions for the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Fernando Darío Almeida García , Michel Daoud Yacoub , José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho

This paper presents a general formalism that allows the derivation of the cumulant generating function and one-point Probability Distribution Function (PDF) of the aperture mass ($\hat{M}_{ap}$), a common observable for cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Paulo Reimberg , Francis Bernardeau

We use a suite of 3D simulations of star-forming molecular clouds, with and without stellar feedback and magnetic fields, to investigate the effectiveness of different fitting methods for volume and column density probability distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-22 Avery Kiihne , Sabrina M. Appel , Blakesley Burkhart , Vadim A. Semenov , Christoph Federrath

In assumed probability density function (pdf) methods of turbulent combustion, the shape of the scalar pdf is assumed a priori and the pdf is parametrized by its moments for which model equations are solved. In non-premixed flows the beta…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-05 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

The influence of the tail features of the local magnetic field probability density function (PDF) on the ferromagnetic Ising model is studied in the limit of infinite range interactions. Specifically, we assign a quenched random field whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-30 Silvio M. Duarte Queiros , Nuno Crokidakis , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

We develop two general methods to infer the gravitational potential of a system using steady-state tracers, i.e., tracers with a time-independent phase-space distribution. Combined with the phase-space continuity equation, the time…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

We discuss the statistical properties of parton distributions within the framework of the NNPDF methodology. We present various tests of statistical consistency, in particular that the distribution of results does not depend on the…