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most citedUnexpected Topology of the Temperature Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background

34 citations · 35 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.CO2021

Topology and geometry of Gaussian random fields II: on critical points, excursion sets, and persistent homology

Pratyush Pranav

This paper is second in the series, following Pranav et al. (2019), focused on the characterization of geometric and topological properties of 3D Gaussian random fields. We focus o…

astro-ph.CO20211 cited

Loops abound in the cosmic microwave background: A anomaly on super-horizon scales

Pratyush Pranav

We present a topological analysis of the temperature fluctuation maps from the \emph{Planck 2020} Data release 4 (DR4) based on the \texttt{NPIPE} data processing pipeline. For com…

astro-ph.CO2020

Persistent homology of the cosmic web. I: Hierarchical topology in CDM cosmologies

Georg Wilding, Keimpe Nevenzeel, Rien van de Weygaert +5

Using a set of CDM simulations of cosmic structure formation, we study the evolving connectivity and changing topological structure of the cosmic web using state-of-the-art tool…

astro-ph.CO2019

Stochastic Homology of Gaussian vs. non-Gaussian Random Fields: Graphs towards Betti Numbers and Persistence Diagrams

Job Feldbrugge, Matti van Engelen, Rien van de Weygaert +2

The topology and geometry of random fields - in terms of the Euler characteristic and the Minkowski functionals - has received a lot of attention in the context of the Cosmic Micro…

astro-ph.CO201834 cited

Unexpected Topology of the Temperature Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Pratyush Pranav, Robert J. Adler, Thomas Buchert +5

We study the topology generated by the temperature fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, as quantified by the number of components and holes, formally gi…

astro-ph.CO2018

Topology and Geometry of Gaussian random fields I: on Betti Numbers, Euler characteristic and Minkowski functionals

Pratyush Pranav, Rien van de Weygaert, Gert Vegter +6

This study presents a numerical analysis of the topology of a set of cosmologically interesting three-dimensional Gaussian random fields in terms of their Betti numbers , $β_1…