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This paper studies the asymptotic behaviors of the pairwise angles among n randomly and uniformly distributed unit vectors in R^p as the number of points n -> infinity, while the dimension p is either fixed or growing with n. For both…

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We review and study some of the properties of smooth Gaussian random fields defined on a homogeneous space, under the assumption that the probability distribution is invariant under the isometry group of the space. We first give an…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Alexandre Afgoustidis

In this paper we consider the convex hull of a spherically symmetric sample in $R^d$. Our main contributions are some new asymptotic results for the expectation of the number of vertices, number of facets, area and the volume of the convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Enkelejd Hashorva

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 consider the ensemble of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on $\mathbb{T}^3=\mathbb{R}^3/\mathbb{Z}^3$ (`$3d$ arithmetic random waves'), and study the distribution of their nodal surface area. The expected area is proportional to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Jacques Benatar , Riccardo W. Maffucci

Variation of empirical Fr\'echet means on a metric space with curvature bounded above is encoded via random fields indexed by unit tangent vectors. A central limit theorem shows these random tangent fields converge to a Gaussian such field…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Jonathan C. Mattingly , Ezra Miller , Do Tran

Using the spectral multiplicities of the standard torus, we endow the Laplace eigenspaces with Gaussian probability measures. This induces a notion of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the torus ("arithmetic random waves"). We study…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Manjunath Krishnapur , Par Kurlberg , Igor Wigman

We prove that the Nazarov-Sodin constant, which up to a natural scaling gives the leading order growth for the expected number of nodal components of a random Gaussian field, genuinely depends on the field. We then infer the same for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Par Kurlberg , Igor Wigman

This article studies the harmonicity of vector fields on Riemannian manifolds, viewed as maps into the tangent bundle equipped with a family of Riemannian metrics. Geometric and topological rigidity conditions are obtained, especially for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-17 M. Benyounes , E. Loubeau , L. Todjihounde

The wave equation for vectors and symmetric tensors in spherical coordinates is studied under the divergence-free constraint. We describe a numerical method, based on the spectral decomposition of vector/tensor components onto spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-23 Jerome Novak , Jean-Louis Cornou , Nicolas Vasset

In this paper, we investigate the variance of the nodal length for band-limited spherical random waves. When the frequency window includes a number of eigenfunctions that grows linearly, the variance of the nodal length is linear with…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Anna Paola Todino

We consider ensembles of real symmetric band matrices with entries drawn from an infinite sequence of exchangeable random variables, as far as the symmetry of the matrices permits. In general the entries of the upper triangular parts of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Werner Kirsch , Thomas Kriecherbauer

We compute the joint distributions of arbitrary numbers of eigenvectors of real and complex symmetric random tensors by the quantum field theoretical methods which were previously used to compute the mean distributions. We obtain the random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Naoki Sasakura

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the nodal lines for random spherical harmonics restricted to shrinking domains, in the 2-dimensional case: i.e., the length of the zero set $\mathcal{Z}_{\ell,r_\ell} :=…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Anna Paola Todino

The connection between spherical harmonics and symmetric tensors is explored. For each spherical harmonic, a corresponding traceless symmetric tensor is constructed. These tensors are then extended to include nonzero traces, providing an…

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We establish a general criterion for the positivity of the variance of a chaotic component of local functionals of stationary vector-valued Gaussian fields. This criterion is formulated in terms of the spectral properties of the covariance…

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We consider the statistics of the number of nodal domains aka nodal counts for eigenfunctions of separable wave equations in arbitrary dimension. We give an explicit expression for the limiting distribution of normalised nodal counts and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sven Gnutzmann , Stylianos Lois

We consider Gaussian random eigenfunctions (Hermite functions) of fixed energy level of the isotropic semi-classical Harmonic Oscillator on ${\bf R}^n$. We calculate the expected density of zeros of a random eigenfunction in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Boris Hanin , Steve Zelditch , Peng Zhou

We investigate the universality of singular value and eigenvalue distributions of matrix valued functions of independent random matrices and apply these general results in several examples. In particular we determine the limit distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 F. Götze , H. Kösters , A. Tikhomirov

We propose a novel basis of vector functions, the mixed vector spherical harmonics that are closely related to the functions $F_{lm}$ of Sheppard and T\"or\"ok and help us reduce the concentration problem of tangential vector fields within…

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