
Random Fields and Geometry
by Adler, Robert J.; Taylor, Jonathan E.-
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Summary
Table of Contents
Preface | p. V |
Gaussian Processes | |
Gaussian Fields | p. 7 |
Random Fields | p. 7 |
Gaussian Variables and Fields | p. 8 |
Boundedness and Continuity | p. 11 |
Examples | p. 20 |
Fields on R[superscript N] | p. 20 |
Differentiability on R[superscript N] | p. 22 |
The Brownian Family of Processes | p. 24 |
Generalized Fields | p. 30 |
Set-Indexed Processes | p. 36 |
Non-Gaussian Processes | p. 40 |
Majorizing Measures | p. 41 |
Gaussian Inequalities | p. 49 |
Borell-TIS Inequality | p. 49 |
Comparison Inequalities | p. 57 |
Orthogonal Expansions | p. 65 |
The General Theory | p. 66 |
The Karhunen-Loeve Expansion | p. 70 |
Excursion Probabilities | p. 75 |
Entropy Bounds | p. 76 |
Processes with a Unique Point of Maximal Variance | p. 86 |
Examples | p. 89 |
Extensions | p. 93 |
The Double-Sum Method | p. 95 |
Local Maxima and Excursion Probabilities | p. 96 |
Stationary Fields | p. 101 |
Basic Stationarity | p. 101 |
Stochastic Integration | p. 103 |
Moving Averages | p. 105 |
Spectral Representations on R[superscript N] | p. 109 |
Spectral Moments | p. 112 |
Constant Variance | p. 114 |
Isotropy | p. 115 |
Stationarity over Groups | p. 119 |
Geometry | |
Integral Geometry | p. 127 |
Basic Integral Geometry | p. 127 |
Excursion Sets Again | p. 134 |
Intrinsic Volumes | p. 141 |
Differential Geometry | p. 149 |
Manifolds | p. 149 |
Tensor Calculus | p. 154 |
Riemannian Manifolds | p. 160 |
Integration on Manifolds | p. 166 |
Curvature | p. 171 |
Intrinsic Volumes for Riemannian Manifolds | p. 175 |
A Euclidean Example | p. 176 |
Piecewise Smooth Manifolds | p. 183 |
Whitney Stratified Spaces | p. 184 |
Locally Convex Spaces | p. 188 |
Cone Spaces | p. 190 |
Critical Point Theory | p. 193 |
Critical Points | p. 193 |
The Normal Morse Index | p. 195 |
The Index | p. 195 |
Generalized Tangent Spaces and Tame Manifolds | p. 196 |
Regular Stratified Manifolds | p. 198 |
The Index on Intersections of Sets | p. 198 |
Morse's Theorem for Stratified Spaces | p. 206 |
Morse Functions | p. 206 |
Morse's Theorem | p. 207 |
The Euclidean Case | p. 210 |
Volume of Tubes | p. 213 |
The Volume-of-Tubes Problem | p. 215 |
Volume of Tubes and Gaussian Processes | p. 216 |
Local Geometry of Tube(M, [rho]) | p. 219 |
Basic Structure of Tubes | p. 220 |
Stratifying the Tube | p. 222 |
Computing the Volume of a Tube | p. 223 |
First Steps | p. 223 |
An Intermediate Computation | p. 224 |
Subsets of R[superscript l] | p. 225 |
Subsets of Spheres | p. 230 |
Weyl's Tube Formula | p. 231 |
Volume of Tubes and Gaussian Processes, Continued | p. 242 |
Intrinsic Volumes for Whitney Stratified Spaces | p. 244 |
Alternative Representation of the Curvature Measures | p. 249 |
Breakdown of Weyl's Tube Formula | p. 249 |
Generalized Lipschitz-Killing Curvature Measures | p. 250 |
The Generalized Curvature Measures | p. 251 |
Surface Measure on the Boundary of a Tube | p. 252 |
Series Expansions for the Gaussian Measure of Tubes | p. 254 |
The Geometry of Random Fields | |
Random Fields on Euclidean Spaces | p. 263 |
Rice's Formula | p. 263 |
An Expectation Metatheorem | p. 266 |
Suitable Regularity and Morse Functions | p. 280 |
An Alternate Proof of the Metatheorem | p. 283 |
Higher Moments | p. 284 |
Preliminary Gaussian Computations | p. 286 |
The Mean Euler Characteristic | p. 289 |
Mean Intrinsic Volumes | p. 298 |
On the Importance of Stationarity | p. 299 |
Random Fields on Manifolds | p. 301 |
The Metatheorem on Manifolds | p. 301 |
Riemannian Structure Induced by Gaussian Fields | p. 305 |
Connections and Curvatures | p. 306 |
Some Covariances | p. 308 |
Gaussian Fields on R[superscript N] | p. 310 |
Another Gaussian Computation | p. 312 |
The Mean Euler Characteristic | p. 315 |
Manifolds without Boundary | p. 315 |
Manifolds with Boundary | p. 317 |
Examples | p. 323 |
Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem | p. 327 |
Mean Intrinsic Volumes | p. 331 |
Crofton's Formula | p. 332 |
Mean Intrinsic Volumes: The Isotropic Case | p. 333 |
A Gaussian Crofton Formula | p. 334 |
Mean Intrinsic Volumes: The General Case | p. 342 |
Two Gaussian Lemmas | p. 343 |
Excursion Probabilities for Smooth Fields | p. 349 |
On Global Suprema | p. 351 |
A First Representation | p. 352 |
The Problem with the First Representation | p. 354 |
A Second Representation | p. 354 |
Random Fields | p. 360 |
Suprema and Euler Characteristics | p. 362 |
Some Fine Tuning | p. 365 |
Gaussian Fields with Constant Variance | p. 368 |
Examples | p. 372 |
Stationary Processes on [0, T] | p. 372 |
Isotropic Fields with Monotone Covariance | p. 374 |
A Geometric Approach | p. 376 |
The Cosine Field | p. 382 |
Non-Gaussian Geometry | p. 387 |
A Plan of Action | p. 389 |
A Representation for Mean Intrinsic Volumes | p. 391 |
Proof of the Representation | p. 392 |
Poincare's Limit | p. 398 |
Kinematic Fundamental Formulas | p. 400 |
The KFF on R[superscript n] | p. 401 |
The KFF on S[subscript lambda] (R[superscript n]) | p. 402 |
A Model Process on the l-Sphere | p. 402 |
The Process | p. 403 |
Mean Curvatures for the Model Process | p. 404 |
The Canonical Gaussian Field on the l-Sphere | p. 410 |
Mean Curvatures for Excursion Sets | p. 411 |
Implications for More General Fields | p. 415 |
Warped Products of Riemannian Manifolds | p. 416 |
Warped Products | p. 417 |
A Second Fundamental Form | p. 419 |
Non-Gaussian Mean Intrinsic Volumes | p. 421 |
Examples | p. 425 |
The Gaussian Case | p. 426 |
The [chi superscript 2] Case | p. 427 |
The F Case | p. 430 |
References | p. 435 |
Notation Index | p. 443 |
Subject Index | p. 445 |
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