Counting critical points of random functions in many dimensions

Counting critical points of random functions in many dimensions

Nov 16, 2010, 04:10 PM - 05:00 PM | 60 Evans Hall | Date Changed
Gérard Ben Arous, New York University, visiting MSRI (Speaker)
I will survey the recent progress of an on-going joint work with Antonio Auffinger and Jiri Cerny. We compute the number of critical points of a general Gaussian random smooth function on the N-dimensional sphere. These corresponds to Hamiltonians of well-known models of statistical physics, i.e spherical spin glasses. Using the classical Kac-Rice formula, this counting boils down to a problem...