The statistics of the points where nodal lines intersect a reference curve

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/32/003zbMATH Open1127.62126arXiv0704.3350OpenAlexW2001415903MaRDI QIDQ5757629FDOQ5757629

Authors: Amit Aronovitch, Uzy Smilansky 

Publication date: 7 September 2007

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

Abstract: We study the intersection points of a fixed planar curve $Gamma$ with the nodal set of a translationally invariant and isotropic Gaussian random field $$ and the zeros of its normal derivative across the curve. The intersection points form a discrete random process which is the object of this study. The field probability distribution function is completely specified by the correlation $$. Given an arbitrary $$, we compute the two point correlation function of the point process on the line, and derive other statistical measures (repulsion, rigidity) which characterize the short and long range correlations of the intersection points. We use these statistical measures to quantitatively characterize the complex patterns displayed by various kinds of nodal networks. We apply these statistics in particular to nodal patterns of random waves and of eigenfunctions of chaotic billiards. Of special interest is the observation that for monochromatic random waves, the number variance of the intersections with long straight segments grows like $LlnL$, as opposed to the linear growth predicted by the percolation model, which was successfully used to predict other long range nodal properties of that field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3350

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zbMATH Keywords

random wavescorrelation functionsnodal curvesnodal patternsstatistics of crossing pointsstatistics of nodal networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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