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We investigate the random variable defined by the volume of the zero set of a smooth Gaussian field, on a general Riemannian manifold possibly with boundary, a fundamental object in probability and geometry. We prove a new explicit formula…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Michele Stecconi , Anna Paola Todino

Random fields in nature often have, to a good approximation, Gaussian characteristics. We present the mathematical framework for a new and simple method for investigating the non-Gaussian contributions, based on counting the maxima and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-26 T. H. Beuman , A. M. Turner , V. Vitelli

We study the length of the nodal set of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the $\spheredim$-dimensional sphere. It is well known that the eigenspaces corresponding to $\eigval=n(n+\spheredim-1)$ are the spaces $\eigspc$ of spherical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor Wigman

We study the peak height distribution of certain non-stationary Gaussian random fields. The explicit peak height distribution of smooth, non-stationary Gaussian processes in 1D with general covariance is derived. The formula is determined…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-19 Yu Zhao , Dan Cheng , Samuel Davenport , Armin Schwartzman

The asymptotic law for the expected nodal volume of random non-Gaussian monochromatic band-limited functions is determined in vast generality. Our methods combine microlocal analytic techniques and modern probability theory. A particularly…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Zakhar Kabluchko , Andrea Sartori , Igor Wigman

The presented paper is devoted to statistical modeling of Gaussian scalar real random fields inside a three-dimensional sphere (ball). We propose a statistical model describing the spatial heterogeneity in a unit ball and a numerical…

Applications · Statistics 2021-12-14 D. Kolyukhin , A. Minakov

Gaussian random field on general ultrametric space is introduced as a solution of pseudodifferential stochastic equation. Covariation of the introduced random field is computed with the help of wavelet analysis on ultrametric spaces. Notion…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-10 A. Yu. Khrennikov , S. V. Kozyrev

The concept of a gauge invariant symmetric random norm is elaborated in this paper. We introduce norm processes and show that this kind of stochastic processes are closely related to gauge invariant symmetric random norms. We construct a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Attila Lovas , Attila Andai

The goal of this research is to derive an approach to assess uncertainty in an arbitrary volume conditioned by sampling data, without using geostatistical simulation. We have accomplished this goal by deriving an numerical tool suitable for…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-22 Alvaro I. Riquelme , Julian M. Ortiz

The conventional cosmological perturbation theory has been performed under the assumption that we know the whole spatial region of the universe with infinite volume. This is, however, not the case in the actual observations because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takahiro Tanaka , Yuko Urakawa

Let T be a random field invariant under the action of a compact group G We give conditions ensuring that independence of the random Fourier coefficients is equivalent to Gaussianity. As a consequence, in general it is not possible to…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 P. Baldi , D. Marinucci , V. S. Varadarajan

This paper considers a multivariate spatial random field, with each component having univariate marginal distributions of the skew-Gaussian type. We assume that the field is defined spatially on the unit sphere embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Alfredo Alegría , Sandra Caro , Moreno Bevilacqua , Emilio Porcu , Jorge Clarke

We investigate effective equations governing the volume expansion of spatially averaged portions of inhomogeneous cosmologies in spacetimes filled with an arbitrary fluid. This work is a follow-up to previous studies focused on irrotational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-16 Thomas Buchert , Pierre Mourier , Xavier Roy

Consider a random smooth Gaussian field $G(x):F\to\mathbb{R}$, where $F$ is a compact in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We derive a formula for average area of a surface generated by the equation $G(x)=0$ and give some applications. As an auxiliary result…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-18 Ildar Ibragimov , Dmitry Zaporozhets

Consider the random sequential packing model with infinite input and in any dimension. When the input consists of non-zero volume convex solids we show that the total number of solids accepted over cubes of volume $\lambda$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 T. Schreiber , Mathew D. Penrose , J. E. Yukich

The explicit formulae for the height distribution and expected number of local maxima have been obtained for isotropic Gaussian random fields on certain low-dimensional Euclidean space or low-dimensional spheres.

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Dan Cheng , Armin Schwartzman

We prove that a random distribution in two dimensions which is conformally invariant and satisfies a natural domain Markov property is a multiple of the Gaussian free field. This result holds subject only to a fourth moment assumption.

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Nathanael Berestycki , Ellen Powell , Gourab Ray

We consider the volume of the gauge orbit space for gauge fields on four-dimensional complex projective space. The analysis uses a parametrization of gauge fields where gauge transformations act homogeneously on the fields, facilitating a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-18 Dimitra Karabali , Antonina Maj , V. P. Nair

Let $\Gamma$ be a lattice in a connected semisimple Lie group $G$ with trivial center and no compact factors. We introduce a volume invariant for representations of $\Gamma$ into $G$, which generalizes the volume invariant for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Sungwoon Kim , Inkang Kim

We formulate the problem of determining the volume of the set of Gaussian physical states in the framework of information geometry. That is, by considering phase space probability distributions parametrized by the covariances and supplying…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-13 Domenico Felice , Hà Quang Minh , Stefano Mancini