Gaussian Fields on a hypercube from Long Range Random Walks
Abstract
We consider a class of Gaussian Free Fields denoted by , where and . These fields are related to a general class of -dimensional random walks on the hypercube, which are killed at a certain rate. The covariance structure of the Gaussian free field is determined by the Green function of these random walks. There exists a coupling such that the Gaussian free fields form a Markov chain where is time. If the entries of the random walk are exchangeable, then the random variables in the Gaussian field can be coupled with spin glass models. A natural choice is to take the increments of the random walk to be from a de Finetti sequence with elements . The random walk is then well defined on . The Green function and a strong representation for are characterized by a point process which involves the de Finetti measure of the increments of the random walk. A limit theorem as is found for level set sums of the Gaussian free field. In the limit Gaussian process the covariance function is a mixture of a bivariate normal density, with the correlation mixed by a distribution on . We also study a complex Gaussian field which is the transform of the Gaussian process limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.18167,
title = {Gaussian Fields on a hypercube from Long Range Random Walks},
author = {Robert Griffiths},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18167},
year = {2025}
}