Universal Cancellations in Uniform Random Waves
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| author | Gass, Louis Marinucci, Domenico Peccati, Giovanni Pistolato, Francesca Stecconi, Michele |
| author_facet | Gass, Louis Marinucci, Domenico Peccati, Giovanni Pistolato, Francesca Stecconi, Michele |
| contents | A vast literature over the past fifteen years has been devoted to the study of the geometric properties of Gaussian random waves. In this work, we investigate the geometric behavior of \emph{uniform random waves}, a much less studied non-Gaussian model in which the $L^2$ norm is constrained to be exactly equal to one in every realization (a normalization that is natural from the standpoint of quantum mechanics). We show that this norm-constrained formulation has deep consequences for the universality of the so-called \emph{Berry's cancellation phenomenon}, as well as for novel high-frequency asymptotic variance estimates. These effects manifest themselves in both local geometric functionals, such as the Lipschitz--Killing curvatures, and global ones, such as the number of connected components above a fixed threshold. A key byproduct of our analysis is a new explicit relation between Hermite expansions and spherical harmonic decompositions for $0$-homogeneous functionals of Gaussian vectors, which enables a systematic chaos-based analysis of non-Gaussian random waves. |
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| spellingShingle | Universal Cancellations in Uniform Random Waves Gass, Louis Marinucci, Domenico Peccati, Giovanni Pistolato, Francesca Stecconi, Michele Probability 60G60, 33C55, 53C65, 60D05 A vast literature over the past fifteen years has been devoted to the study of the geometric properties of Gaussian random waves. In this work, we investigate the geometric behavior of \emph{uniform random waves}, a much less studied non-Gaussian model in which the $L^2$ norm is constrained to be exactly equal to one in every realization (a normalization that is natural from the standpoint of quantum mechanics). We show that this norm-constrained formulation has deep consequences for the universality of the so-called \emph{Berry's cancellation phenomenon}, as well as for novel high-frequency asymptotic variance estimates. These effects manifest themselves in both local geometric functionals, such as the Lipschitz--Killing curvatures, and global ones, such as the number of connected components above a fixed threshold. A key byproduct of our analysis is a new explicit relation between Hermite expansions and spherical harmonic decompositions for $0$-homogeneous functionals of Gaussian vectors, which enables a systematic chaos-based analysis of non-Gaussian random waves. |
| title | Universal Cancellations in Uniform Random Waves |
| topic | Probability 60G60, 33C55, 53C65, 60D05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17076 |