Nodal intersections for random waves on the 3-dimensional torus

2015/01/29 by Rudnick, Zeev, Wigman, Igor, Yesha, Nadav
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.07410

Abstract

We investigate the number of nodal intersections of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the standard three-dimensional flat torus with a fixed smooth reference curve, which has nowhere vanishing curvature. The expected intersection number is universally proportional to the length of the reference curve, times the wavenumber, independent of the geometry. Our main result gives a bound for the variance, if either the torsion of the curve is nowhere zero or if the curve is planar.

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