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Minkowski tensors are comprehensive shape descriptors that robustly capture n-point information in complex random geometries and that have already been extensively applied in the Euclidean plane. Here, we devise a novel framework for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Caroline Collischon , Michael Klatt , Anthony Banday , Manami Sasaki , Christoph Räth

For material modeling of microstructured media, an accurate characterization of the underlying microstructure is indispensable. Mathematically speaking, the overall goal of microstructure characterization is to find simple functionals which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Felix Ernesti , Matti Schneider , Steffen Winter , Daniel Hug , Günter Last , Thomas Böhlke

In order to quantify higher-order correlations of the galaxy cluster distribution we use a complete family of additive measures which give scale-dependent morphological information. Minkowski functionals can be expressed analytically in…

The Minkowski functionals are a mathematical tool to quantify morphological features of patterns. Some applications to the matter distribution in galaxy catalogues and N-body simulations are reviewed, with an emphasis on the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alvaro Dominguez

We establish an additive kinematic formula for the functional Minkowski vectors using mixed Monge-Amp\`ere measures. These vectors, recently introduced and characterized by the author and F. Mussnig, form a natural family of vector-valued…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Mohamed A. Mouamine

Gaussian random fields are among the most important models of amorphous spatial structures and appear across length scales in a variety of physical, biological, and geological applications, from composite materials to geospatial data.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-04 Michael Andreas Klatt , Max Hörmann , Klaus Mecke

Minkowski functionals (MFs) quantify the topological properties of a given field probing its departure from Gaussianity. We investigate their use on lensing convergence maps in order to see whether they can provide further insights on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-02 Martina Vicinanza , Vincenzo F. Cardone , Roberto Maoli , Roberto Scaramella , Xinzhong Er , Ismael Tereno

We present a new ansatz which can successfully be used to determine the morphological properties of the supercluster-void network. The ansatz is based on a surface modelling scheme SURFGEN, which generates a triangulated surface from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jatush V. Sheth , Varun Sahni , Sergei F. Shandarin , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We identify Whittaker vectors for $\mathcal{W}_k(\mathfrak{g})$-modules with partition functions of higher Airy structures. This implies that Gaiotto vectors, describing the fundamental class in the equivariant cohomology of a suitable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Gaëtan Borot , Vincent Bouchard , Nitin Kumar Chidambaram , Thomas Creutzig

One way to study an hypergraph is to attach to it a tensor. Tensors are a generalization of matrices, and they are an efficient way to encode information in a compact form. In this paper we study how properties of weighted hypergraphs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Francesco Galuppi , Raffaella Mulas , Lorenzo Venturello

In this work we consider infinite dimensional extensions of some finite dimensional Gaussian geometric functionals called the Gaussian Minkowski functionals. These functionals appear as coefficients in the probability content of a tube…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-26 Jonathan E. Taylor , Sreekar Vadlamani

A tensor is a multi-way array that can represent, in addition to a data set, the expression of a joint law or a multivariate function. As such it contains the description of the interactions between the variables corresponding to each of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Alain Franc

We propose a novel framework in high-dimensional factor models to simultaneously analyse multiple tensor time series, each with potentially different tensor orders and dimensionality. The connection between different tensor time series is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-19 Zetai Cen

Tensors, or multi-linear forms, are important objects in a variety of areas from analytics, to combinatorics, to computational complexity theory. Notions of tensor rank aim to quantify the "complexity" of these forms, and are thus also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mandar Juvekar , Arian Nadjimzadah

We apply the Minkowski tensor statistics to three dimensional Gaussian random fields. Minkowski tensors contain information regarding the orientation and shape of excursion sets, that is not present in the scalar Minkowski functionals. They…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Stephen Appleby , Pravabati Chingangbam , Changbom Park , K. P. Yogendran , P. K. Joby

Compressed sensing extends from the recovery of sparse vectors from undersampled measurements via efficient algorithms to the recovery of matrices of low rank from incomplete information. Here we consider a further extension to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Holger Rauhut , Reinhold Schneider , Zeljka Stojanac

We show how cosmological correlation functions of massless fields can be rewritten in terms of Minkowski correlation functions, by extracting symmetry-breaking operators from the cosmological correlators. This technique simplifies some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Shek Kit Chu , Mang Hei Gordon Lee , Shiyun Lu , Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Siyi Zhou

Classical regression methods treat covariates as a vector and estimate a corresponding vector of regression coefficients. Modern applications in medical imaging generate covariates of more complex form such as multidimensional arrays…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-22 Hua Zhou , Lexin Li , Hongtu Zhu

We present a novel method for computing the Minkowski Functionals from isodensity surfaces extracted directly from the Delaunay tessellation of a point distribution. This is an important step forward compared to the previous cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-23 Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Sergei F. Shandarin , Alexander Szalay

A convolution representation of continuous translation invariant and SO(n) equivariant Minkowski valuations is established. This is based on a new classification of translation invariant generalized spherical valuations. As applications,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Franz E. Schuster , Thomas Wannerer