Small ball probabilities for the Slepian Gaussian fields
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Abstract:
The $d$-dimensional Slepian Gaussian random field $\{S({\mathbf {t}}), {\mathbf {t}} \in \mathbb {R}_+^d\}$ is a mean zero Gaussian process with covariance function $\mathbb {E} S({\mathbf {s}})S({\mathbf {t}})= \prod _{i=1}^d \max (0, a_i-\left | s_i-t_i\right | )$ for $a_i>0$ and ${\mathbf {t}}=(t_1, \cdots , t_d) \in \mathbb {R}_+^d$. Small ball probabilities for $S({\mathbf {t}})$ are obtained under the $L_2$-norm on $[0,1]^d$, and under the sup-norm on $[0,1]^2$ which implies Talagrand’s result for the Brownian sheet. The method of proof for the sup-norm case is purely probabilistic and analytic, and thus avoids ingenious combinatoric arguments of using decreasing mathematical induction. In particular, Riesz product techniques are new ingredients in our arguments.References
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Additional Information
- Fuchang Gao
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844
- MR Author ID: 290983
- Email: fuchang@uidaho.edu
- Wenbo V. Li
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716
- Email: wli@math.udel.edu
- Received by editor(s): October 28, 2004
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 2, 2005
- Published electronically: October 16, 2006
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported in part by NSF Grants EPS-0132626 and DMS-0405855
The second author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0204513 - © Copyright 2006
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), 1339-1350
- MSC (2000): Primary 60G15; Secondary 42A55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-06-03963-8
- MathSciNet review: 2262853