Complexity of Gaussian random fields with isotropic increments: critical points with given indices

Abstract

We study the landscape complexity of the Hamiltonian $X_N(x) +\frac\mu2 \|x\|^2,$ where $X_{N}$ is a smooth Gaussian process with isotropic increments on $\mathbb R^{N}$. This model describes a single particle on a random potential in statistical physics. We derive asymptotic formulas for the mean number of critical points of index $k$ with critical values in an open set as the dimension $N$ goes to infinity. In a companion paper, we provide the same analysis without the index constraint.