On the area of excursion sets of spherical Gaussian eigenfunctions

DOI10.1063/1.3624746zbMATH Open1272.82017arXiv1009.4367OpenAlexW3103193377MaRDI QIDQ2849786FDOQ2849786

Authors: Igor Wigman, Domenico Marinucci 

Publication date: 24 September 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The high frequency behaviour for random eigenfunctions of the spherical Laplacian has been recently the object of considerable interest, also because of strong motivations arising from Physics and Cosmology. In this paper, we are concerned with the high frequency behaviour of excursion sets; in particular, we establish a Uniform Central Limit Theorem for the empirical measure, i.e. the proportion of spherical surface where spherical Gaussian eigenfunctions lie below a level $z$. Our proofs borrows some techniques from the literature on stationary long memory processes; in particular, we expand the empirical measure into Hermite polynomials, and establish a uniform weak reduction principle, entailing that the asymptotic behaviour is asymptotically dominated by a single term in the expansion. As a result, we establish a functional central limit theorem; the limiting process is fully degenerate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4367

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zbMATH Keywords

spherical Gaussian eigenfunctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

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