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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

Turbulence is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. There is a need for adequate tools to describe and characterize the properties of turbulent flows. One-point probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen

We study a large deviation functional of density fluctuation by analyzing stochastic non-linear diffusion equations driven by the difference between the densities fixed at the boundaries. By using a fundamental equality that yields the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shin-ichi Sasa

We present an analytical description of the probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed three-dimensional matter density field for modified gravity and dark energy. Our approach, based on the principles of Large Deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Matteo Cataneo , Cora Uhlemann , Christian Arnold , Alex Gough , Baojiu Li , Catherine Heymans

We conduct numerical experiments to determine the density probability distribution function (PDF) produced in supersonic, isothermal, self-gravitating turbulence of the sort that is ubiquitous in star-forming molecular clouds. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-10 Shivan Khullar , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher D. Matzner

We study the domain of validity of Perturbation Theory (PT), by comparing its predictions for the reduced skewness, s_3, and kurtosis, s_4, of the projected cosmological density field, with the results of N-body simulations. We investigate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 E. Gaztanaga , F. Bernardeau

The Central Limit Theorem does not hold for strongly correlated stochastic variables, as is the case for statistical systems close to criticality. Recently, the calculation of the probability distribution function (PDF) of the magnetization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-28 Sankarshan Sahu , Bertrand Delamotte , Adam Rançon

We compare the non-linear matter power spectrum in real space calculated analytically from 3rd-order perturbation theory with N-body simulations at 1<z<6. We find that the perturbation theory prediction agrees with the simulations to better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Donghui Jeong , Eiichiro Komatsu

Parton distribution function (PDF) at small $x$ in a fast-moving proton is investigated within an upgraded parton model that includes parton splitting with branching cascades and parton fusion. In the region of moderately small $x$, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 M. L. Nekrasov

We numerically study the volume density probability distribution function (n-PDF) and the column density probability distribution function (Sigma-PDF) resulting from thermally bistable turbulent flows. We analyze three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Adriana Gazol , Jongsoo Kim

Variational inference has become one of the most widely used methods in latent variable modeling. In its basic form, variational inference employs a fully factorized variational distribution and minimizes its KL divergence to the posterior.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-29 Robert Bamler , Cheng Zhang , Manfred Opper , Stephan Mandt

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

Cosmological linear perturbation theory predicts that the peculiar velocity $V(x)$ and the matter overdensity $\delta(x)$ at a same point $x$ are statistically independent quantities, as log as the initial density fluctuations are random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoki Seto

The probability density functions (PDFs) for energy dissipation rates, created from time-series data of grid turbulence in a wind tunnel, are analyzed in a high precision by the theoretical formulae for PDFs within multifractal PDF theory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu , Hideaki Mouri

We study the one-point probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the peculiar velocity and the density fluctuation in a cosmological fluid. Within the perturbative approach to the structure formation scenario, the effect of ``pressure''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takayuki Tatekawa

We consider the statistics of light amplitude fluctuations for the propagation of a laser beam subjected to multiple filamentation in an amplified Kerr media, with both linear and nonlinear dissipation. Dissipation arrests the catastrophic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-21 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova

The method of photon distribution function (PDF) is used to study fluctuations of light beams propagating through a turbulent atmosphere. Our analysis concerns the regime of saturated fluctuations. The focus is on the phenomena of beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 V. L. Andriichuk , O. O. Chumak , L. A. Derzhypolska , I. V. Matsniev

We propose a new, physically motivated fitting function for density PDFs in turbulent gas. Although it is known that when gas is isothermal, the PDF is approximately lognormal in the core, high-resolution simulations show large deviations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins

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 properties of the probability distribution function of the cosmological continuous density field are studied. We present further developments and compare dynamically motivated methods to derive the PDF. One of them is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Bernardeau , L. Kofman