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RANDOM FIELDS AND THEIR GEOMETRY

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Contents<br />

1 Random fields 1<br />

1.1 Random fields and excursion sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.2 Gaussian fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.3 The Brownian family of processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

1.4 Stationarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

1.4.1 Stochastic integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

1.4.2 Moving averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.4.3 Spectral representations on R N . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

1.4.4 Spectral moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

1.4.5 Constant variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

1.4.6 Isotropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

1.4.7 Stationarity over groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

1.5 Non-Gaussian fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

2 Gaussian fields 39<br />

2.1 Boundedness and continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

2.2 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

2.2.1 Fields on R N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

2.2.2 Differentiability on R N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

2.2.3 Generalised fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

2.2.4 Set indexed processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

2.2.5 Non-Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />

2.3 Borell-TIS inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

2.4 Comparison inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

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