On the nodal lines of random and deterministic Laplace eigenfunctions

DOI10.1090/PSPUM/084/1362MaRDI QIDQ5501426zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Wigman

Publication date 3 August 2015

Published in Spectral Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0150

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Random fields (60G60) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Spherical harmonics (33C55) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: In the present survey we present some of the recent results concerning the geometry of nodal lines of random Gaussian eigenfunctions (in case of spectral degeneracies) or wavepackets and related issues. The most fundamental example, where the spectral degeneracy allows us to consider random eigenfunctions (i.e. endow the eigenspace with Gaussian probability measure), is the sphere, and the corresponding eigenspaces are the spaces of spherical harmonics; this model is the primary focus of the present survey. The list of results presented is, by no means, complete.

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