Isotropic Gaussian random fields on the sphere: regularity, fast simulation and stochastic partial differential equations

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DOI10.1214/14-AAP1067zbMATH Open1328.60126arXiv1305.1170MaRDI QIDQ894800FDOQ894800


Authors: Annika Lang, Christoph Schwab Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 24 November 2015

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Isotropic Gaussian random fields on the sphere are characterized by Karhunen-Lo`{e}ve expansions with respect to the spherical harmonic functions and the angular power spectrum. The smoothness of the covariance is connected to the decay of the angular power spectrum and the relation to sample H"{o}lder continuity and sample differentiability of the random fields is discussed. Rates of convergence of their finitely truncated Karhunen-Lo`{e}ve expansions in terms of the covariance spectrum are established, and algorithmic aspects of fast sample generation via fast Fourier transforms on the sphere are indicated. The relevance of the results on sample regularity for isotropic Gaussian random fields and the corresponding lognormal random fields on the sphere for several models from environmental sciences is indicated. Finally, the stochastic heat equation on the sphere driven by additive, isotropic Wiener noise is considered, and strong convergence rates for spectral discretizations based on the spherical harmonic functions are proven.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1170




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