Small Deviations for Some Multi-Parameter Gaussian Processes

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 213-239

  Mason, David M ^a   Shi, Zhan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

Author keywords

Exceptional set; Fractional Brownian sheet; Gaussian random field; Hausdorff dimension; Random fractal; Small ball probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042786029     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007833401562     Document Type: Article

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