Boundedness of the nodal domains of additive Gaussian fields

DOI10.1090/TPMS/1169zbMATH Open1495.60018arXiv2111.09059OpenAlexW3213235491WikidataQ114093788 ScholiaQ114093788MaRDI QIDQ5080409FDOQ5080409

Authors: Stephen Muirhead 

Publication date: 31 May 2022

Published in: Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the connectivity of the excursion sets of additive Gaussian fields, i.e. stationary centred Gaussian fields whose covariance function decomposes into a sum of terms that depend separately on the coordinates. Our main result is that, under mild smoothness and correlation decay assumptions, the excursion sets $fleell$ of additive planar Gaussian fields are bounded almost surely at the critical level $el{l}_c=0$. Since we do not assume positive correlations, this provides the first examples of continuous non-positively-correlated stationary planar Gaussian fields for which the boundedness of the nodal domains has been confirmed. By contrast, in dimension $dge3$ the excursion sets have unbounded components at all levels.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09059

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zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian fieldslevel setspercolationnodal domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Random fields (60G60) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

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