Tightness of the recentered maximum of log-correlated Gaussian fields

Javier Acosta (University of Minnesota)

Abstract


We consider a family of centered Gaussian fields on the  d-dimensional unit box, whose covariance decreases logarithmically in the distance between points. We prove tightness of the recentered maximum of the Gaussian fields and provide exponentially decaying bounds on the right and left tails. We then apply this result to a version of the two-dimensional continuous Gaussian free field.

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Publication Date: October 3, 2014

DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v19-3170

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