On the distribution of the critical values of random spherical harmonics

DOI10.1007/S12220-015-9668-5zbMATH Open1353.60020arXiv1409.1364OpenAlexW3103138859MaRDI QIDQ345323FDOQ345323

Igor Wigman, Valentina Cammarota, Domenico Marinucci

Publication date: 1 December 2016

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

Abstract: We study the limiting distribution of critical points and extrema of random spherical harmonics, in the high energy limit. In particular, we first derive the density functions of extrema and saddles; we then provide analytic expressions for the variances and we show that the empirical measures in the high-energy limits converge weakly to their expected values. Our arguments require a careful investigation of the validity of the Kac-Rice formula in nonstandard circumstances, entailing degeneracies of covariance matrices for first and second derivatives of the processes being analyzed.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Legendre polynomialscritical pointsKac-Rice formulaextremalimiting distributionHilb's asymptoticsrandom spherical harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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