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On the evolution of Betti curves in the Cosmic web

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arxiv 2311.10029 v2 pith:VCHWV3K2 submitted 2023-11-16 astro-ph.CO

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In this work, we study the evolution of Betti curves obtained by persistent-homological analysis of point clouds formed by halos in different cosmological $N$-body simulations. We show that they can be approximated with a scaled log-normal distribution function with reasonable precision. Our analysis shows that the shapes and maximums of Betti curves exhibit dependence on the mass range of the selected subpopulation of halos. Still, at the same time, the resolution of a simulation does not play any significant role, provided that the mass distribution of simulated halos is complete down to a given mass scale. Besides, we study how Betti curves change with the evolution of the Universe, i.e., their dependence on redshift. Sampling subpopulations of halos within certain mass ranges up to redshift $z=2.5$ yields a surprisingly small difference between corresponding Betti curves. We propose that this may be an indicator of the existence of a new specific topological invariant in the structure of the Universe.

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  1. On the statistical nature of Betti numbers and Euler characteristic of smooth random fields

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    Betti numbers, Euler characteristic and their sum for excursion sets are expressed in terms of Binomial coefficients of a topological basis, predicting Gaussian statistics except at high thresholds.

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