A method for testing the cosmic homogeneity with Shannon entropy

We propose a method for testing cosmic homogeneity based on the Shannon entropy in Information theory and test the potentials and limitations of the method on Monte Carlo simulations of some homogeneous and inhomogeneous 3D point process in a finite region of space. We analyze a set of N-body simulations to investigate the prospect of determining the scale of homogeneity with the proposed method and show that the method could serve as an efficient tool for the study of homogeneity.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRA

Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646

This is a proposal to encode the Pau Cin Hau script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 7.0 in June 2014. Pau Cin Hau is a liturgical script for the Laipian religion. It was originally designed to write the Tedim language, a Chin language in western Myanmar, but the script also includes characters for representing sounds of other Chin languages