Asymptotic uncorrelation for Mexican needlets

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Abstract: We recall Mexican needlets from [5]. We derive an estimate for certain types of Legendre series, which we apply to the statistical properties of Mexican needlets. More precisely, we shall show that, under isotropy and Gaussianity assumptions, the Mexican needlet coefficients of a random field on the sphere are asymptotically uncorrelated, as the frequency parameter goes to infinity. This property is important in the analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation.


The author considers expression of the form \[ \beta_{t,x} =\sum_{n=1}^\infty\sum_{m=-n}^{n} f(t^2\lambda_n)a_{n,m} Y^m_n(x), \] where \(f\) is a Schwartz function on \([0,\infty)\) with \(f(0)=0\), for example \(f(s)= s^re^{-s}\), \(Y^m_l\) are the spherical harmonics on \(S^2\), \(\lambda_n=n(n+1)\) are the eigenvalues of the Laplacian associated with \(Y^m_n\) and \(a_{n,m}\) are considered to be random variables satisfying \(\overline{a}_{n,m}= (-1)^ma_{n,-m}\). In applications the coefficients \(a_{n,m}\) arise as inner products \(\langle F,Y^m_n\rangle\) where \(F\in L^2(S^2)\) has second order isotropy. The main result in the paper is an estimate which shows that the correlation between \(\beta_{t,x}\) and \(\beta_{t,t}\) goes to \(0\) as \(t\) tends to zero for fixed different points \(x\) and \(y\).











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