Introduction to Higher Order Spatial Statistics in Cosmology

2005/05/18 by István Szapudi, Szapudi, István
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0505391

36 pages, to appear in ``Data Analysis in Cosmology'', eds V.J. Martinez, E. Martnez-Gonzalez, M.J. Pons-Borderia and E. Saar, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics. Uses Springer-Verlag style

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Abstract

In this lecture notes I concentrate on the classic and widely applicable characterization of higher order statistics by joint moments, a.k.a. higher order correlation functions, and directly related statistics. I put special emphasis on recent results, especially the connection of spatial statistics with symmetries.

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