High-resolution asymptotics for the angular bispectrum of spherical random fields

DOI10.1214/009053605000000903zbMATH Open1104.60020arXivmath/0502434OpenAlexW2047037194MaRDI QIDQ2493544FDOQ2493544

Authors: Domenico Marinucci 

Publication date: 21 June 2006

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of the angular bispectrum of spherical random fields. Here, the asymptotic theory is developed in the framework of fixed-radius fields, which are observed with increasing resolution as the sample size grows. The results we present are then exploited in a set of procedures aimed at testing non-Gaussianity; for these statistics, we are able to show convergence to functionals of standard Brownian motion under the null hypothesis. Analytic results are also presented on the behavior of the tests in the presence of a broad class of non-Gaussian alternatives. The issue of testing for non-Gaussianity on spherical random fields has recently gained enormous empirical importance, especially in connection with the statistical analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502434

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zbMATH Keywords

spherical harmonicsspectral representationcosmic microwave background radiationGaussianity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Random fields (60G60) Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis (62M15) Stationary stochastic processes (60G10) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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