Steep points of Gaussian free fields in any dimension

DOI10.1007/S10959-020-01028-7MaRDI QIDQ2664529zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Linan Chen

Publication date 17 November 2021

Published in Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03034

zbMATH Keywords

exceptional set Gaussian free field Hausdorff dimension regularization processes steep point thick point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: This work aims to extend the existing results on the Hausdorff dimension of the classical thick point sets of a Gaussian free field (GFF) to a more general class of exceptional sets. We adopt the circle or sphere averaging regularization to treat a singular GFF in any dimension, and introduce the notion of "

f -

steep point" of the GFF for certain test function

f

. Roughly speaking, the

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steep points of a generic element of the GFF are locations where, when weighted by the function

f

, the "steepness", or in other words, the "rate of change" of the regularized field element becomes unusually large. Different choices of

f

lead to the study of various exceptional behaviors of the GFF. We investigate the Hausdorff dimension of the set consisting of

f -

steep points, from which we can recover the existing results on thick point sets for both log-correlated and polynomial-correlated GFFs, and also obtain new results on exceptional sets that, to our best knowledge, have not been previously studied. Our method is inspired by the one used to study the thick point sets of the classical 2D log-correlated GFF.

Review text

The author investigates the Hausdorff dimension of a general class of exceptional sets of a Gaussian free field (GFF). Log-correlated and polynomial-correlated GFFs in any dimension are studied. The approach is based on a circle or sphere averaging regularization. The main tool is the notion of ``\(f\)-steep points of the GFF, i.e., locations where the regularized field changes very fast if the weight function is \(f.\) The paper investigates the Hausdorff dimension of the set of \(f\)-steep points. Lower and upper bounds on the Hausdorff dimension of the exceptional sets are derived. Existing results on thick point sets for both log-correlated and polynomial-correlated GFFs are obtained as a corollary. Also, results for new exceptional sets are given. Several examples how various choices of \(f\) lead to different exceptional sets of GFFs are provided. Some related research problems and future directions are presented in the last section.

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