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This paper introduces a position-space renormalization-group approach for nonequilibrium systems and applies the method to a driven stochastic one-dimensional gas with open boundaries. The dynamics are characterized by three parameters: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivan T. Georgiev , Susan R. McKay

Transport maps have become a popular mechanic to express complicated probability densities using sample propagation through an optimized push-forward. Beside their broad applicability and well-known success, transport maps suffer from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Martin Eigel , Robert Gruhlke , Manuel Marschall

In this paper, we study the statistical evolution of the large-scale structure (LSS), focusing on the joint probability distribution function (PDF) of the coarse-grained cosmic field and its role in constructing effective dynamics. As the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Xin Wang

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

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

(Abridged) We discuss the probability distribution function (PDF) of column density resulting from density fields with lognormal PDFs, applicable to isothermal gas (e.g., probably molecular clouds). We suggest that a ``decorrelation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Nieves Garcia

Data loss is a critical problem in structural health monitoring (SHM). Probability distributions play a highly important role in many applications. Improving the quality of distribution estimations made using incomplete samples is highly…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-11 Zhicheng Chen , Yuequan Bao , Hui Li , Billie F. Spencer

We calculate the momentum distribution of the Fermi liquid phase of the homogeneous, two-dimensional electron gas. We show that, close to the Fermi surface, the momentum distribution of a finite system with $N$ electrons approaches its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-13 Markus Holzmann , Bernard Bernu , Valerio Olevano , Richard M. Martin , David M. Ceperley

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point Probability Distribution Function (PDF) can be estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational Perturbation Theory (PT) with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , E. Elizalde

Fusing probabilistic information is a fundamental task in signal and data processing with relevance to many fields of technology and science. In this work, we investigate the fusion of multiple probability density functions (pdfs) of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Günther Koliander , Yousef El-Laham , Petar M. Djurić , Franz Hlawatsch

We report the development of a scalar quantization approach that helps build tables of decision and reconstruction levels for any probability density function (pdf). Several example pdf's are used for illustration: Uniform, Gaussian,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 C. Tannous

The probability density function (PDF) of the roughness, i.e., of the temporal variance, of 1/f^alpha noise signals is studied. Our starting point is the generalization of the model of Gaussian, time-periodic, 1/f noise, discussed in our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Antal , M. Droz , G. Gyorgyi , Z. Racz

We derive an analytic expression for the transitional column density value ($s_t$) between the lognormal and power-law form of the probability distribution function (PDF) in star-forming molecular clouds. Our expression for $s_t$ depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Blakesley Burkhart , Kye Stalpes , David Collins

Given a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables, a novel nonparametric maximum entropy method is presented to estimate the underlying continuous univariate probability density function (pdf). Estimates are found…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Jenny Farmer , Donald J. Jacobs

The one-dimensional (1D) $t-J$ model is investigated using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. We report for the first time a generalization of the DMRG method to the case of arbitrary band filling and prove a theorem…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Liang Chen , S. Moukouri

Modern galaxy surveys produce redshift probability density functions (PDFs) in addition to traditional photometric redshift (photo-$z$) point estimates. However, the storage of photo-$z$ PDFs may present a challenge with increasingly large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 A. I. Malz , P. J. Marshall , S. J. Schmidt , M. L. Graham , J. DeRose , R. Wechsler

In this paper, we develop a method of performing the one-point statistics of a perturbed density field with a multiresolutional decomposition based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). We establish the algorithm of the one-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hu Zhan , Li-Zhi Fang

We construct a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in which fixed-order NLO and NNLO calculations are supplemented with soft-gluon (threshold) resummation up to NLL and NNLL accuracy respectively, suitable for use in conjunction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-13 Marco Bonvini , Simone Marzani , Juan Rojo , Luca Rottoli , Maria Ubiali , Richard D. Ball , Valerio Bertone , Stefano Carrazza , Nathan P. Hartland

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative objects defined by nonlocal light-cone correlations. They cannot be computed directly from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Using a standard lattice QCD approach, it is possible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici , Barbara Pasquini , Xiaonu Xiong

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap