Correlations and screening of topological charges in Gaussian random fields

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/24/301MaRDI QIDQ4450151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. R. Dennis

Publication date 15 February 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0302024, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/29383/1/JPA36_6611.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

singularityrandom fieldcritical pointcorrelation functiontopological chargeumbilic pointGaussianrandom vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Random fields (60G60)

Abstract: 2-point topological charge correlation functions of several types of geometric singularity in gaussian random fields are calculated explicitly, using a general scheme: zeros of $n$-dimensional random vectors, signed by the sign of their jacobian determinant; critical points (gradient zeros) of real scalars in two dimensions signed by the hessian; and umbilic points of real scalars in two dimensions, signed by their index. The functions in each case depend on the underlying spatial correlation function of the field. These topological charge correlation functions are found to obey the first Stillinger-Lovett sum rule for ionic fluids.

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