No zero-crossings for random polynomials and the heat equation
No zero-crossings for random polynomials and the heat equation
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随机多项式和热方程没有零交叉
DOI:
10.1214/13-aop852
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
S. Mukherjee
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作者:
A. Dembo;S. Mukherjee
Consider random polynomial ∑ni=0aixi of independent mean-zero normal coefficients ai, whose variance is a regularly varying function (in i) of order α. We derive general criteria for continuity of persistence exponents for centered Gaussian processes, and use these to show that such polynomial has no roots in [0,1] with probability n−bα+o(1), and no roots in (1,∞) with probability n−b0+o(1), hence for n even, it has no real roots with probability n−2bα−2b0+o(1). Here, bα=0 when α≤−1 and otherwise bα∈(0,∞) is independent of the detailed regularly varying variance function and corresponds to persistence probabilities for an explicit stationary Gaussian process of smooth sample path. Further, making precise the solution ϕd(x,t) to the d-dimensional heat equation initiated by a Gaussian white noise ϕd(x,0), we confirm that the probability of ϕd(x,t)≠0 for all t∈[1,T], is T−bα+o(1), for α=d/2−1.