Generalized stealthy hyperuniform processes: maximal rigidity and the bounded holes conjecture (Q1989919)

In this paper, a rigorous mathematical analysis of stealthy hyperuniform processes is provided. The initial idea is to consider point processes, or random fields, with a gap in the spectrum on an open set which may not include the origin. Developing this idea, the authors study translation invariant \(d\)-parameter stochastic processes whose diffraction spectrum or structure function, i.e., the Fourier transform of the truncated total pair correlation function, vanishes on an open set in the wave space. It is established that all such processes exhibit the following remarkable maximal rigidity: namely, the configuration outside a bounded region determines, with probability 1, the exact value (or the exact locations of the points) of the process inside the region. In particular, such processes are completely determined by their tail. In particle systems theory, an important object of investigation is the event that there is a large ``hole'' in the particle configuration, by a ``hole'' we generally mean a ball, with centre at the origin, that is devoid of any particle. The rate of decay of the hole probability encodes important structural information about the particle system at hand. In this paper, the conjecture that the upper bound on the hole size depends only on the size of the gap for the structure function of the process, is verified.