API Reference

pyCE: a configurational entropy library.

Configurational entropy (CE) is an information-theoretic measure of the spatial complexity of a field configuration, built from the Shannon entropy of the normalized power spectrum (the “modal fraction”) of the configuration.

Modules

math : radial Fourier transforms and d-dimensional radial integration cosmology : analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background instantons : generating and analyzing instantons bosonstars : generating and analyzing boson stars oscillons : generating and analyzing oscillons polytropes : generating and analyzing polytropic models of stars

• pyCE.instantons module
• pyCE.bosonstars module
• pyCE.oscillons module
• pyCE.polytropes module
• pyCE.cosmology package
• pyCE.math module