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Zero correlations and averaged fields of orthonormal Gaussian functions

Probability 2026-05-19 v1 Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider the family of point processes {Zfn}n=0\{\mathcal{Z}_{f_{n}}\}_{n=0}^{\infty} of zeros of Gaussian random functions {fn(z,z)}n=0\{f_{n}(z,\overline{z})\}_{n=0}^{\infty} , arising from the Gaussian Entire Function f0(z):=k=0ζkzkk!,ζkNC(0,1) i.i.d. f_{0}(z):=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \zeta_{k} \frac{z^{k}}{\sqrt{k!}}, \quad \zeta_{k} \sim N_{\mathbb{C}}(0,1)\text{ i.i.d.} by iteration of the Landau raising operator, and orthonormal at each point in expectation in the sense that E[ez2fn(z,z)fn(z,z)]=δnn. \mathbb{E}\left[ e^{-\left\vert z\right\vert^{2}}f_{n}(z,\overline{z})\overline{f_{n^{\prime }}(z,\overline{z})}\right] ={\delta }_{nn'}. We first show that the normalized pair correlations gn,n+k(z,w)g_{n,n+k}(z,w) of the pairs (Zfn,Zfn+k)(\mathcal{Z}_{f_{n}},\mathcal{Z}_{f_{n+k}}) exhibit \emph{a pattern reminiscent of the classical interlacing of zeros of orthogonal polynomials}: when wzw\rightarrow z, gn,n+kg_{n,n+k} displays repulsion for k=1k=1, attraction for k=2k=2, and no short-range second-order correlation for k3k \ge 3. We complement this with the convergence of real-valued averaged fields on compacts KCK \subset \mathbb{C}, limN1Nn=0N1fn(z,z)ez2221 almost surely in C(K), \lim_{N \to \infty} \frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}\left\vert f_{n}(z,\overline{z})e^{-\frac{\left\vert z\right\vert^{2}}{2}} \right\vert^{2} \rightarrow 1 \quad \text{ almost surely in $C(K)$}, and a functional central limit theorem for the corresponding scaled fluctuations, which converge to the Gaussian process G(z)=1πC1B(z,1)(u)dWR(u),\mathcal{G}(z) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi}} \int_{\mathbb{C}} \mathbf{1}_{B(z,1)}(u) dW_{\mathbb{R}}(u), where WRW_{\mathbb{R}} denotes real white noise on C\mathbb{C} and B(z,1)B(z,1) is the unit disk centered at zz. The results are motivated by problems in signal processing. Due to an identification with white noise spectrograms, they confirm conjectures of Flandrin and Bayram-Baraniuk and provide a rationale for the efficiency of high resolution time-frequency algorithms, namely \emph{ConceFT}, by Daubechies, Wang and Wu.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.17296,
  title  = {Zero correlations and averaged fields of orthonormal Gaussian functions},
  author = {Luís Daniel Abreu and Tomoyuki Shirai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17296},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

48 pages, 2 figures

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