A Quantitative Central Limit Theorem for the Euler-Poincar\'e Characteristic of Random Spherical Eigenfunctions
Abstract
We establish here a Quantitative Central Limit Theorem (in Wasserstein distance) for the Euler-Poincar\'{e} Characteristic of excursion sets of random spherical eigenfunctions in dimension 2. Our proof is based upon a decomposition of the Euler-Poincar\'{e} Characteristic into different Wiener-chaos components: we prove that its asymptotic behaviour is dominated by a single term, corresponding to the chaotic component of order two. As a consequence, we show how the asymptotic dependence on the threshold level is fully degenerate, i.e., the Euler-Poincar\'{e} Characteristic converges to a single random variable times a deterministic function of the threshold. This deterministic function has a zero at the origin, where the variance is thus asymptotically of smaller order. Our results can be written as an asymptotic second-order Gaussian Kinematic Formula for the excursion sets of Gaussian spherical harmonics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.09588,
title = {A Quantitative Central Limit Theorem for the Euler-Poincar\'e Characteristic of Random Spherical Eigenfunctions},
author = {Valentina Cammarota and Domenico Marinucci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09588},
year = {2021}
}