Existence of an unbounded nodal hypersurface for smooth Gaussian fields in dimension d \ge 3

DOI10.1214/22-AOP1594arXiv2108.08008MaRDI QIDQ6375489FDOQ6375489

Authors: Hugo Duminil-Copin, Alejandro Rivera, Pierre-François Rodriguez, Hugo Vanneuville 

Publication date: 18 August 2021

Abstract: For the Bargmann--Fock field on $mathbb{R}^d$ with $dge3$, we prove that the critical level $el{l}_c(d)$ of the percolation model formed by the excursion sets $fgeell$ is strictly positive. This implies that for every $ell$ sufficiently close to $0$ (in particular for the nodal hypersurfaces corresponding to the case $ell=0$), $f=ell$ contains an unbounded connected component that visits "most" of the ambient space. Our findings actually hold for a more general class of positively correlated smooth Gaussian fields with rapid decay of correlations. The results of this paper show that the behaviour of nodal hypersurfaces of these Gaussian fields in $mathbb{R}^d$ for $dge3$ is very different from the behaviour of nodal lines of their two-dimensional analogues.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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