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Betti numbers of random nodal sets of elliptic pseudo-differential operators

Spectral Theory 2014-06-05 v1 Probability

Abstract

Given an elliptic self-adjoint pseudo-differential operator PP bounded from below, acting on the sections of a Riemannian line bundle over a smooth closed manifold MM equipped with some Lebesgue measure, we estimate from above, as LL grows to infinity, the Betti numbers of the vanishing locus of a random section taken in the direct sum of the eigenspaces of PP with eigenvalues below LL. These upper estimates follow from some equidistribution of the critical points of the restriction of a fixed Morse function to this vanishing locus. We then consider the examples of the Laplace-Beltrami and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators associated to some Riemannian metric on MM.

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@article{arxiv.1406.0934,
  title  = {Betti numbers of random nodal sets of elliptic pseudo-differential operators},
  author = {Damien Gayet and Jean-Yves Welschinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0934},
  year   = {2014}
}

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