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2024 On the universality of the Nazarov-Sodin constant
Andrea Sartori
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Electron. J. Probab. 29: 1-21 (2024). DOI: 10.1214/23-EJP1059

Abstract

We study the number of connected components of non-Gaussian random spherical harmonics on the two dimensional sphere S2. We prove that the expectation of the nodal domains count is independent of the distribution of the coefficients provided it has a finite second moment.

Funding Statement

This work was supported by the ISF Grant 1903/18 and the BSF Start up Grant no. 20183.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mikhail Sodin for suggesting the question explored in this script and for many useful discussions. We also thank the anonymous referee for his thorough work and their comment which helped improving the presentation.

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Andrea Sartori. "On the universality of the Nazarov-Sodin constant." Electron. J. Probab. 29 1 - 21, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1214/23-EJP1059

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Received: 2 November 2022; Accepted: 16 November 2023; Published: 2024
First available in Project Euclid: 13 February 2024

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/23-EJP1059

Subjects:
Primary: 34L20

Keywords: Laplace eigenfunctions , nodal domains

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