Beyond genus statistics: a unifying approach to the morphology of cosmic structure

Abstract

The genus statistics of isodensity contours has become a well-established tool in cosmology. In this Letter we place the genus in the wider framework of a complete family of morphological descriptors. These are known as the Minkowski functionals, and we here apply them for the first time to isodensity contours of a continuous random field. By taking two equivalent approaches, one through differential geometry, the other through integral geometry, we derive two complementary formulae suitable for numerically calculating the Minkowski functionals. As an example we apply them to simulated Gaussian random fields and compare the outcome to the analytically known results, demonstrating that both are indeed well suited for numerical evaluation. The code used for calculating all Minkowski functionals is available from the authors.

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