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Two point function for critical points of a random plane wave

Mathematical Physics 2018-01-09 v1 math.MP Probability

Abstract

Random plane wave is conjectured to be a universal model for high-energy eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on generic compact Riemanian manifolds. This is known to be true on average. In the present paper we discuss one of important geometric observable: critical points. We first compute one-point function for the critical point process, in particular we compute the expected number of critical points inside any open set. After that we compute the short-range asymptotic behaviour of the two-point function. This gives an unexpected result that the second factorial moment of the number of critical points in a small disc scales as the fourth power of the radius.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.04943,
  title  = {Two point function for critical points of a random plane wave},
  author = {Dmitry Beliaev and Valentina Cammarota and Igor Wigman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04943},
  year   = {2018}
}
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