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We consider one-dimensional hyperbolic PDEs, linear and nonlinear, with random initial data. Our focus is the {\em pointwise statistics,} i.e., the probability measure of the solution at any fixed point in space and time. For linear…

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We discuss the probability distributions of Fourier modes of cosmological density fields using the central limit theorem as it applies to weighted integrals of random fields. It is shown that if the cosmological principle holds in a certain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Zuhui Fan , J. M. Bardeen

We present analytic formulae for the integral number count distribution of cosmological bursting or steady sources valid over the entire range of fluxes, including density evolution and either standard candle or a power law luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Meszaros , P. Meszaros

This study explores the impact of cosmic curvature on structure formation through general relativistic first-order perturbation theory. We analyze continuity and Euler equations, incorporating cosmic curvature into Einstein equations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Bikash R. Dinda

We derive a multifractal model for the velocity probability density distribution function (PDF), which is valid from the inertial range to the viscous range. The model gives a continuous evolution of velocity PDFs from large to small…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Jens Eggers , Z. Jane Wang

We introduce a novel two-step approach for estimating a probability density function (pdf) given its samples, with the second and important step coming from a geometric formulation. The procedure involves obtaining an initial estimate of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-14 Sutanoy Dasgupta , Debdeep Pati , Anuj Srivastava

We study the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass density in simulations of supersonic turbulence with properties appropriate for molecular clouds. For this study we use Athena, a new higher-order Godunov code. We find there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone

The large-scale structure in cosmology is highly non-Gaussian at late times and small length scales, making it difficult to describe analytically. Parameter inference, data reconstruction, and data generation tasks in cosmology are greatly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Adam Rouhiainen

Using a diagrammatic approach to Eulerian perturbation theory, we analytically calculate the variance and skewness of the density and velocity divergence induced by gravitational evolution from Gaussian initial conditions, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Roman Scoccimarro , Joshua Frieman

This work presents a formalism for deriving likelihoods of the cosmological density field directly from first principles within Perturbation Theory (PT). By assuming a perturbative expansion around the Gaussian initial density field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Rodrigo Voivodic

The last few years have seen the development of a promising theoretical framework for statistics of the cosmic large-scale structure -- the theory of large deviations (LDT) for modelling weak-lensing one-point statistics in the mildly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-15 Alexandre Barthelemy , Anik Halder , Zhengyangguang Gong , Cora Uhlemann

We use the non-equlibrium statistical field theory for classical particles, recently developed by Mazenko and Das and Mazenko, together with the free generating functional we have previously derived for point sets initially correlated in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-06 Matthias Bartelmann , Felix Fabis , Daniel Berg , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Celia Viermann

A model of the gravitationally evolved dark matter distribution, in the Eulerian space, is developed. It is a simple extension of the excursion set model that is commonly used to estimate the mass function of collapsed dark matter haloes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ravi K. Sheth

The problem of solving perturbatively the equations describing the evolution of self-gravitating collisionless matter in an expanding universe considerably simplifies when directly formulated in terms of the gravitational and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Catelan , Francesco Lucchin , Sabino Matarrese , Lauro Moscardini

We introduce a new functional representation of probability density functions (PDFs) of non-negative random variables via a product of a monomial factor and linear combinations of decaying exponentials with complex exponents. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Gregory Beylkin , Lucas Monzon , Ignas Satkauskas

Random processes play a crucial role in scientific research, often characterized by distribution functions or probability density functions (PDFs). These PDFs serve as essential approximations of the actual and frequently undisclosed…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 Nico Schick

In a search for the signature of turbulence in the diffuse interstellar medium in gas density distributions, we determined the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the average volume densities of the diffuse gas. The densities were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Berkhuijsen , A. Fletcher

The probability distribution functions (PDFs) for atomic, molecular, and total gas surface densities of M33 are determined at a resolution of about 50~pc over regions that share coherent morphological properties to unveil fingerprints of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-03 Edvige Corbelli , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Jonathan Braine , David Thilker

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

Photon counts statistics have recently been proven to provide a sensitive observable for characterizing gamma-ray source populations and for measuring the composition of the gamma-ray sky. In this work, we generalize the use of the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 H. -S. Zechlin , A. Cuoco , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , M. Regis