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Convergence of the centered maximum of log-correlated Gaussian fields

Jian Ding, Rishideep Roy and Ofer Zeitouni
Journal Name
The Annals of Probability
Journal Publication
others
Publication Year
2017
Journal Publications Functional Area
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Publication Date
Vol. 45, No. 6A, 2017, Pg. 3886-3928
Abstract

We show that the centered maximum of a sequence of logarithmically correlated Gaussian fields in any dimension converges in distribution, under the assumption that the covariances of the fields converge in a suitable sense. We identify the limit as a randomly shifted Gumbel distribution, and characterize the random shift as the limit in distribution of a sequence of random variables, reminiscent of the derivative martingale in the theory of branching random walk and Gaussian chaos. We also discuss applications of the main convergence theorem and discuss examples that show that for logarithmically correlated fields; some additional structural assumptions of the type we make are needed for convergence of the centered maximum.

Convergence of the centered maximum of log-correlated Gaussian fields

Author(s) Name: Jian Ding, Rishideep Roy and Ofer Zeitouni
Journal Name: The Annals of Probability
Volume: Vol. 45, No. 6A, 2017, Pg. 3886-3928
Year of Publication: 2017
Abstract:

We show that the centered maximum of a sequence of logarithmically correlated Gaussian fields in any dimension converges in distribution, under the assumption that the covariances of the fields converge in a suitable sense. We identify the limit as a randomly shifted Gumbel distribution, and characterize the random shift as the limit in distribution of a sequence of random variables, reminiscent of the derivative martingale in the theory of branching random walk and Gaussian chaos. We also discuss applications of the main convergence theorem and discuss examples that show that for logarithmically correlated fields; some additional structural assumptions of the type we make are needed for convergence of the centered maximum.