Berry cancellation conjecture for Lipschitz–Killing curvatures

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Let TT be a Gaussian eigenfunction on a compact manifold M\mathbb M. For uRu\in\mathbb R, define the excursion set

Au(T,M):={xM:T(x)>u}.A_u(T,\mathbb M):=\{x\in\mathbb M:T(x)>u\}.

For each Lipschitz–Killing curvature of Au(T,M)A_u(T,\mathbb M), consider its projection onto the second-order Wiener chaos. Berry cancellation conjecture. For excursion sets of Gaussian eigenfunctions on compact manifolds, the projection of each Lipschitz–Killing curvature onto the second-order Wiener chaos vanishes if and only if u=0u=0. This would provide a major step toward a global understanding of Berry's cancellation phenomenon. In dimension two, the relevant curvatures are the area, half the boundary length, and the Euler–Poincaré characteristic; results for the two-sphere support the conjecture for the area and Euler–Poincaré characteristic, with boundary-length evidence also discussed, but the general statement remains open.

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Maurizia Rossi, “The Geometry of Spherical Random Fields”, arXiv:1603.07575 (2016).

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