A necessary and sufficient condition for probabilistic continuity on a boundaryless compact Riemannian manifold (Q2143631)

The paper is devoted to a classical problem in probabilistic Fourier analysis, namely the uniform convergence of random series of eigenfunctions. The first results in this connection go back to [\textit{R. E. A. C. Paley} and \textit{A. Zygmund}, Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 26, 337--357, 458--474 (1930; JFM 56.0254.01); \textit{R. Salem} and \textit{A. Zygmund}, Acta Math. 91, 245--301 (1954; Zbl 0056.29001)], about classical Fourier series for periodic functions. Attention was then fixed on stationary Gaussian random processes. In this setting, a necessary and sufficient condition is in [\textit{M. B. Marcus} and \textit{G. Pisier}, Random Fourier series with applications to harmonic analysis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1981; Zbl 0474.43004)]. More recently the problem was generalized to expansions in eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold. Main issue in this context is the multiplicity of the eigenvalues, basic example being the n-sphere. Following an idea of [\textit{N. Burq} and \textit{G. Lebeau}, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 46, No. 6, 917--962 (2013; Zbl 1296.46031)], here the author relies in gathering eigenfunctions where eigenvalues are in a same small interval. Under this condition a general necessary and sufficient conditions is obtained, namely the random series almost surely converges in the class of the continuous functions if and only if the coefficients satisfy a condition of Salem and Zygmund type. The strategy of the proof is to study first the case of the \(n\)-sphere and then pass to the manifold by a comparison argument.