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Bottomonium and charmonium, representing quarkonia states, are scrutinized under the point of view of the information theory, in the AdS/QCD holographic setup. A logarithmic measure of information, comprised by the configurational entropy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-27 Nelson R. F. Braga , Roldao da Rocha

We introduce the NEXUS algorithm for the identification of Cosmic Web environments: clusters, filaments, walls and voids. This is a multiscale and automatic morphological analysis tool that identifies all the cosmic structures in a scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

Understanding the large-scale structure of the universe remains a fundamental challenge in cosmology, with computational simulations providing critical insights into non-linear structure growth. Particularly, computational simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Nitish Yadav

The fractal dimension of large-scale galaxy clustering has been demonstrated to be roughly $D_F \sim 2$ from a wide range of redshift surveys. If correct, this statistic is of interest for two main reasons: fractal scaling is an implicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 J. R. Mureika

The fractal and self-similarity properties are revealed in many complex networks. In order to show the influence of different part in the complex networks to the information dimension, we have proposed a new information dimension based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

We calculate Shannon information entropy of trapped interacting bosons in both the position and momentum spaces, $S_r$ and $S_k$ respectively. The total entropy maintains the fuctional form $S=a + b \ln N$ for repulsive bosons. At the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-25 Sudip Kumar Haldar , Barnali Chakrabarti

The subject of this paper is a quantification of the information content of cosmological probes of the large-scale structures, specifically of temperature and polarisation anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background, CMB-lensing, weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Ana Marta Pinho , Robert Reischke , Marie Teich , Björn Malte Schäfer

The intrinsic properties of galaxies are influenced by their environments, underscoring the environment's critical role in galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, these environments are categorized into four fixed classifications:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 C. Yamila Yaryura , Mario G. Abadi , Noam I. Libeskind , Stefan Gottlöber , Sofía A. Cora , Gustavo Yepes

We develop a theoretical framework to describe the cosmological observables on the past light cone such as the luminosity distance, weak lensing, galaxy clustering, and the cosmic microwave background anisotropies. We consider that all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Jaiyul Yoo , Ermis Mitsou , Nastassia Grimm , Ruth Durrer , Alexandre Refregier

The cosmic web defines the large scale distribution of matter we see in the Universe today. Classifying the cosmic web into voids, sheets, filaments and nodes allows one to explore structure formation and the role environmental factors have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 J. D. Fisher , A. Faltenbacher , M. S. T. Johnson

We apply Minkowski functionals and various derived measures to decipher the morphological properties of large-scale structure seen in simulations of gravitational evolution. Minkowski functionals of isodensity contours serve as tools to…

In this work we investigate the environmental dependence of the intrinsic ellipticity correlations in cosmic shear surveys. We use the quadratic and linear alignment model to describe the contributions by spiral and elliptical galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-05 Robert Reischke , Björn Malte Schäfer

We construct a model of the Cyclic Universe from a joint theory of General relativity, Thermodynamics and Quantum information theory. Friedmann equations and the thermodynamical Gibbs-Duhem relation determine a general form of the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-21 Miloslav Svec

We introduce a simple geometrical construction similar to covariant holographic entanglement entropy but with the addition of a new term proportional to boundary region volume. This new procedure has properties strongly resembling classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-10 Sean J. Weinberg

The cosmic web that characterizes the large-scale structure of the Universe can be quantified by a variety of methods. For example, large redshift surveys can be used in combination with point process algorithms to extract long curvilinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Helene Courtois

Long-wavelength matter inhomogeneities contain cleaner information on the nature of primordial perturbations as well as the physics of the early universe. The large-scale coherent overdensity and tidal force, not directly observable for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Masahiro Takada , Yin Li

We present maps classifying regions of the sky according to their information gain potential as quantified by the Fisher information. These maps can guide the optimal retrieval of relevant physical information with targeted cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Andrija Kostić , Jens Jasche , Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Guilhem Lavaux

We present the results of a series of adiabatic hydrodynamical simulations of several quintessence models (both with a free and an interacting scalar field) in comparison to a standard \LCDM\ cosmology. For each we use $2\times1024^3$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Edoardo Carlesi , Alexander Knebe , Geraint F. Lewis , Scott Wales , Gustavo Yepes

Informational dependence between statistical or quantum subsystems can be described with Fisher matrix or Fubini-Study metric obtained from variations of the sample/configuration space coordinates. Using these non-covariant objects as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Vitaly Vanchurin

We present a new perspective on the symmetries that govern the formation of large-scale structures across the Universe, particularly focusing on the transition from the seeds of galaxy clusters to the seeds of galaxies themselves. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Giovanni Montani , Nakia Carlevaro