The defect variance of random spherical harmonics

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/35/355206zbMATH Open1232.60039arXiv1103.0232OpenAlexW2166063969MaRDI QIDQ3173023FDOQ3173023

Authors: Igor Wigman, Domenico Marinucci 

Publication date: 10 October 2011

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

Abstract: The defect of a function $f:MightarrowmathbbR$ is defined as the difference between the measure of the positive and negative regions. In this paper, we begin the analysis of the distribution of defect of random Gaussian spherical harmonics. By an easy argument, the defect is non-trivial only for even degree and the expected value always vanishes. Our principal result is obtaining the asymptotic shape of the defect variance, in the high frequency limit. As other geometric functionals of random eigenfunctions, the defect may be used as a tool to probe the statistical properties of spherical random fields, a topic of great interest for modern Cosmological data analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0232

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zbMATH Keywords

Legendre polynomialsspherical harmonicsdefect variance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Random fields (60G60) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Spherical harmonics (33C55) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10)

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