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most citedCosmic topology. Part IIIa. Microwave background parity violation without parity-violating microphysics

7 citations · 16 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Beyond the Kullback--Leibler divergence: the likelihood-ratio distribution as a detectability measure

Amirhossein Samandar, Mikel Martin Barandiaran, Linn Htat Lu +13

The Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence is the expectation value of the log-likelihood ratio between two specified models, evaluated with respect to one of the two models. It provide…

cs.LG2026

Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning LLMs: Inference Regimes, Evaluation, and Reproducibility

Mohsen Hariri, Weicong Chen, Nahal Shahini +11

Large language models can solve harder reasoning problems with more inference-time compute. The term "test-time scaling," however, covers several inference algorithms: extending de…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmic topology. Part Va. Information content of the observable Universe

Deyan P. Mihaylov, Mikel Martin Barandiaran, Stefano Anselmi +14

If the Universe possesses a compact spatial topology with characteristic scale not much larger than the diameter of the observable Universe, then the associated symmetry transforma…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Topology of the Universe

Craig J. Copi, Deyan P. Mihaylov, Anna Negro +14

Is the Universe infinite in all directions? The only way to know is to look. A non-trivial cosmic topology would imprint subtle signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

hep-th2026

Quantum Signatures of Cosmic Topology: How Casimir Backreaction Transmits Isotropy Violation

Anna Negro, Kurt Hinterbichler, Glenn D. Starkman +17

A finite, scheme-independent Casimir contribution to the stress-energy tensor arises naturally for quantum fields in universes with non-trivial spatial topology. We compute this Ca…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmic topology. Part IIc. Detectability with non-standard primordial power spectrum

Joline Noltmann, Andrius Tamosiunas, Deyan P. Mihaylov +13

Non-trivial spatial topology of the Universe can imprint potentially observable signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this study, we investigate how deviations fr…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmic topology. Part IIb. Eigenmodes, correlation matrices, and detectability of non-orientable Euclidean manifolds

Craig J. Copi, Amirhossein Samandar, Glenn D. Starkman +13

If the Universe has non-trivial spatial topology, observables depend on both the parameters of the spatial manifold and the position and orientation of the observer. In infinite Eu…

cs.AI2025

Don't Pass@k: A Bayesian Framework for Large Language Model Evaluation

Mohsen Hariri, Amirhossein Samandar, Michael Hinczewski +1

Pass is widely used to report the reasoning performance of LLMs, but it often produces unstable and potentially misleading rankings, especially when the number of trials (sampl…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Cosmic topology. Part IIIb. Eigenmodes and correlation matrices of spin-2 perturbations in orientable Euclidean manifolds

Amirhossein Samandar, Javier Carrón Duque, Craig J. Copi +13

We study the eigenmodes of the spin-2 Laplacian in orientable Euclidean manifolds and their implications for the tensor-induced part of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temper…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Cosmic topology. Part Ic. Limits on lens spaces from circle searches

Samanta Saha, Craig J. Copi, Glenn D. Starkman +11

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization observations indicate that in the best-fit Cold Dark Matter model of the Universe, the local geometry is consiste…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Cosmic topology. Part IIIa. Microwave background parity violation without parity-violating microphysics

Amirhossein Samandar, Javier Carrón Duque, Craig J. Copi +11

The standard cosmological model, which assumes statistical isotropy and parity invariance, predicts the absence of correlations between even-parity and odd-parity observables of th…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

Cosmic topology. Part IVa. Classification of manifolds using machine learning: a case study with small toroidal universes

Andrius Tamosiunas, Fernando Cornet-Gomez, Yashar Akrami +16

Non-trivial spatial topology of the Universe may give rise to potentially measurable signatures in the cosmic microwave background. We explore different machine learning approaches…