On the distribution of the critical values of random spherical harmonics

DOI10.1007/s12220-015-9668-5zbMath1353.60020arXiv1409.1364OpenAlexW3103138859MaRDI QIDQ345323

Igor Wigman, Valentina Cammarota, Domenico Marinucci

Publication date: 1 December 2016

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1364

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointslimiting distributionLegendre polynomialsKac-Rice formulaextremaHilb's asymptoticsrandom spherical harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields (60G60) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Spherical harmonics (33C55)

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