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Local repulsion of planar Gaussian critical points

Probability 2022-09-12 v1

Abstract

We study the local repulsion between critical points of a stationary isotropic smooth planar Gaussian field. We show that the critical points can experience a soft repulsion which is maximal in the case of the random planar wave model, or a soft attraction of arbitrary high order. If the type of critical points is specified (extremum, saddle point), the points experience a hard local repulsion, that we quantify with the precise magnitude of the second factorial moment of the number of points in a small ball.

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@article{arxiv.2209.04150,
  title  = {Local repulsion of planar Gaussian critical points},
  author = {Safa Ladgham and Raphaël Lachièze-Rey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04150},
  year   = {2022}
}