Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Random Lipschitz–Killing curvatures: Reduction Principles, Integration by Parts and Wiener chaos
A. Vidotto
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Abstract: In this survey we collect some recent results regarding the Lipschitz–Killing curvatures (LKCs) of the excursion sets of random eigenfunctions on the two-dimensional standard flat torus (arithmetic random waves) and on the two-dimensional unit sphere (random spherical harmonics). In particular, the aim of the present survey is to highlight the key role of integration by parts formulae in order to have an extremely neat expression for the random LKCs. Indeed, the main tool to study local geometric functionals of random waves on manifold is to exploit their Wiener chaos decomposition and show that (often), in the so-called high-energy limit, a single chaotic component dominates their behavior. Moreover, reduction principles show that the dominant Wiener chaotic component of LKCs of random waves’ excursion sets at threshold level u≠0 is proportional to the integral of H2(f), f being the random field of interest and H2 the second Hermite polynomial. This will be shown via integration by parts formulae.
Keywords: Lipschitz-Killing curvatures, random eigenfunctions, Wiener chaos expansion, reduction principles
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