Fluctuations of the number of excursion sets of planar Gaussian fields

DOI10.2140/PMP.2022.3.105MaRDI QIDQ2137783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael McAuley, Stephen Muirhead, D. Beliaev

Publication date 16 May 2022

Published in Probability and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10708

zbMATH Keywords

excursion setsfluctuationsGaussian fieldslevel setsnodal setsvariance bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Random fields (60G60)

Abstract: For a smooth, stationary, planar Gaussian field, we consider the number of connected components of its excursion set (or level set) contained in a large square of area $R^2$. The mean number of components is known to be of order $R^2$ for generic fields and all levels. We show that for certain fields with positive spectral density near the origin (including the Bargmann-Fock field), and for certain levels $ell$, these random variables have fluctuations of order at least $R$, and hence variance of order at least $R^2$. In particular, this holds for excursion sets when $ell$ is in some neighbourhood of zero, and it holds for excursion/level sets when $ell$ is sufficiently large. We prove stronger fluctuation lower bounds of order $R^{a}lpha$, $alphain[1,2]$, in the case that the spectral density has a singularity at the origin. Finally, we show that the number of excursion/level sets for the Random Plane Wave at certain levels has fluctuations of order at least $R^{3/2}$, and hence variance of order at least~$R^3$. We expect that these bounds are of the correct order, at least for generic levels.

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