Nodal area distribution for arithmetic random waves
Abstract
We obtain the limiting distribution of the nodal area of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on (-dimensional 'arithmetic random waves'). We prove that, as the multiplicity of the eigenspace goes to infinity, the nodal area converges to a universal, non-Gaussian, distribution. Universality follows from the equidistribution of lattice points on the sphere. Our arguments rely on the Wiener chaos expansion of the nodal area: we show that, analogous to (Marinucci, Peccati, Rossi and Wigman, 2016), the fluctuations are dominated by the fourth-order chaotic component. The proof builds upon recent results in (Benatar and Maffiucci, 2017) that establish an upper bound for the number of non-degenerate correlations of lattice points on the sphere. We finally discuss higher-dimensional extensions of our result.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.07679,
title = {Nodal area distribution for arithmetic random waves},
author = {Valentina Cammarota},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07679},
year = {2017}
}