Distribution of the height of local maxima of Gaussian random fields

Extremes

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 213-240

  Cheng, Dan ^a   Schwartzman, Armin ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Euler characteristic; Gaussian orthogonal ensemble; Height; Isotropic field; Local maxima; Overshoot; Riemannian manifold; Sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930086302     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-014-0211-z     Document Type: Article

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