Gaussian random fields on the sphere and sphere cross line (Q2145799)

The authors study in this paper Gaussian stochastic processes (Gaussian random fields) indexed by points on a \(d\)-dimensional sphere, including the case \(d=\infty\), i.e., the Hilbert sphere. They give a Karhanen-Loève expansion of such processes in the spatio-temporal case, i.e., for the sphere cross line, and use Belyaev's dichotomy and Tauberian theorems to characterize the (Hölder) continuity and differentiability of the process in terms of a summability condition on the angular power spectrum.