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Geometrical quantity on random checkerboards on the regular torus

Probability 2024-07-02 v1

Abstract

In the study of the observability of the wave equation (here on (0,T)×Td(0,T)\times \mathbb{T}^d, where Td\mathbb{T}^d is the d-dimensional torus), a condition naturally emerges as a sufficient observability condition. This condition, which writes T(ω)>0\ell^T\left(\omega\right) > 0, signifies that the smallest time spent by a geodesic in the subset ωTd\omega\subset \mathbb{T}^d during time TT is non-zero. In other words, the subset ω\omega detects any geodesic propagating on the d-dimensional torus during time TT. Here, the subset ω\omega is randomly defined by drawing a grid of ndn^d, nNn\in\mathbb{N}, small cubes of equal size and by adding them to ω\omega with probability ε>0\varepsilon > 0. In this article, we establish a probabilistic property of the functional T\ell^T: the random law T(ωεn)\ell^T\left(\omega_\varepsilon^n\right) converges in probability to ε\varepsilon as n+n \to + \infty.Considering random subsets ωεn\omega_\varepsilon^n allows us to construct subsets ω\omega such that T(ω)=ω\ell^T\left(\omega\right) = |\omega|.

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@article{arxiv.2407.01022,
  title  = {Geometrical quantity on random checkerboards on the regular torus},
  author = {Léa Gohier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01022},
  year   = {2024}
}
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