Functional central limit theorem for topological functionals of Gaussian critical points

2024/11/18 by Hirsch, Christian, Lachièze-Rey, Raphaël
#FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.11429

Abstract

We consider Betti numbers of the excursion of a smooth Euclidean Gaussian field restricted to a rectangular window, in the asymptotics where the window grows to R^d . With motivations coming from Topological Data Analysis, we derive a functional Central Limit Theorem where the varying argument is the thresholding parameter, under assumptions of regularity and covariance decay for the field and its derivatives. We also show fixed-level CLTs coming from martingale based techniques inspired from the theory of geometric stabilisation, and limiting non-degenerate variance.

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