The expected contribution from isolated zeros of the vector field

Let flf_l be the random spherical harmonic and let VV be the vector field on S2S^2 considered above. Writing DFlDF_l for the derivative of the map Fl=(fl,Vfl)F_l=(f_l,Vf_l) and detDFl\det^{\perp}DF_l for its normal Jacobian, the expected integral over the simultaneous zero set {fl=0,Vfl=0}\{f_l=0,Vf_l=0\} is the quantity displayed above. Expected-value conjecture. The expected value above should satisfy

E[{fl=0,Vfl=0}detDFl(x)dσ(x)]=O(l1).\mathbb{E} \left[ \int_{ \{f_l=0, Vf_l = 0 \}} | \det^{\perp} DF_l(x) | \, d\sigma(x) \right]=\mathcal{O}(l^{-1}).

This estimate would show that the contribution from the complement of the region UU is negligible compared with the previously relevant scale O(l3/2)\mathcal{O}(l^{3/2}). The parser supplies no evidence that the estimate has been proved or disproved.

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Suresh Eswarathasan, “Tangent nodal sets for random spherical harmonics”, arXiv:1809.01595 (2018).

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