Complexity of Gaussian Random Fields with Isotropic Increments

Antonio Auffinger*, Qiang Zeng

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Abstract

We study the energy landscape of a model of a single particle on a random potential, that is, we investigate the topology of level sets of smooth random fields on RN of the form XN(x)+μ2‖x‖2, where XN is a Gaussian process with isotropic increments. We derive asymptotic formulas for the mean number of critical points with critical values in an open set as the dimension N goes to infinity. In a companion paper, we provide the same analysis for the number of critical points with a given index.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)951-993
Number of pages43
JournalCommunications in Mathematical Physics
Volume402
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2023

Funding

Antonio Auffinger: research partially supported by NSF Grant CAREER DMS-1653552 and NSF Grant DMS-1517894. Qiang Zeng: research partially supported by SRG 2020-00029-FST and FDCT 0132/2020/A3.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

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