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Using the spectral multiplicities of the standard torus, we endow the Laplace eigenspaces with Gaussian probability measures. This induces a notion of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the torus (arithmetic random waves). We study the distribution of the nodal length of random eigenfunctions for large eigenvalues, and our primary result is that the asymptotics for the variance is non-universal, and is intimately related to the arithmetic of lattice points lying on a circle with radius corresponding to the energy.
Rudnick and Wigman (Ann. Henri Poincar{e}, 2008; arXiv:math-ph/0702081) conjectured that the variance of the volume of the nodal set of arithmetic random waves on the $d$-dimensional torus is $O(E/mathcal{N})$, as $Etoinfty$, where $E$ is the energy and $mathcal{N}$ is the dimension of the eigenspace corresponding to $E$. Previous results have established this with stronger asymptotics when $d=2$ and $d=3$. In this brief note we prove an upper bound of the form $O(E/mathcal{N}^{1+alpha(d)-epsilon})$, for any $epsilon>0$ and $dgeq 4$, where $alpha(d)$ is positive and tends to zero with $d$. The power saving is the best possible with the current method (up to $epsilon$) when $dgeq 5$ due to the proof of the $ell^{2}$-decoupling conjecture by Bourgain and Demeter.
It has been suggested that the distribution of the suitably normalized number of zeros of Laplacian eigenfunctions contains information about the geometry of the underlying domain. We study this distribution (more precisely, the distribution of the nodal surplus) for Laplacian eigenfunctions of a metric graph. The existence of the distribution is established, along with its symmetry. One consequence of the symmetry is that the graphs first Betti number can be recovered as twice the average nodal surplus of its eigenfunctions. Furthermore, for graphs with disjoint cycles it is proven that the distribution has a universal form --- it is binomial over the allowed range of values of the surplus. To prove the latter result, we introduce the notion of a local nodal surplus and study its symmetry and dependence properties, establishing that the local nodal surpluses of disjoint cycles behave like independent Bernoulli variables.
We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation in one space dimension, perturbed by the derivative of a space and time white noise of intensity $epsilon^{frac 12}$, and we investigate the effect of the noise, as $epsilon to 0$, on the solutions when the initial condition is a front that separates the two stable phases. We prove that, given $gamma< frac 23$, with probability going to one as $epsilon to 0$, the solution remains close to a front for times of the order of $epsilon^{-gamma}$, and we study the fluctuations of the front in this time scaling. They are given by a one dimensional continuous process, self similar of order $frac 14$ and non Markovian, related to a fractional Brownian motion and for which a couple of representations are given.
The eigenvalues of the matrix structure $X + X^{(0)}$, where $X$ is a random Gaussian Hermitian matrix and $X^{(0)}$ is non-random or random independent of $X$, are closely related to Dyson Brownian motion. Previous works have shown how an infinite hierarchy of equations satisfied by the dynamical correlations become triangular in the infinite density limit, and give rise to the complex Burgers equation for the Greens function of the corresponding one-point density function. We show how this and analogous partial differential equations, for chiral, circular and Jaco
We obtain a canonical form of a quadratic Hamiltonian for linear waves in a weakly inhomogeneous medium. This is achieved by using the WKB representation of wave packets. The canonical form of the Hamiltonian is obtained via the series of canonical Bogolyubov-type and near-identical transformations. Various examples of the application illustrating the main features of our approach are presented. The knowledge of the Hamiltonian structure for linear wave systems provides a basis for developing a theory of weakly nonlinear random waves in inhomogeneous media generalizing the theory of homogeneous wave turbulence.