Sojourn functionals of time-dependent $\chi^2$-random fields on two-point homogeneous spaces

Abstract

In this note we investigate geometric properties of invariant spatio-temporal random fields $X:\mathbb M^d\times \mathbb R\to \mathbb R$ defined on a compact two-point homogeneous space $\mathbb M^d$ in any dimension $d\ge 2$, and evolving over time. In particular, we focus on chi-squared distributed random fields, and study the large time behavior (as $T\to +\infty$) of the average on $[0,T]$ of the volume of the excursion set on the manifold, i.e., of $\lbrace X(\cdot, t)\ge u\rbrace$ (for any $u >0$). The Fourier components of $X$ may have short or long memory in time, i.e., integrable or non-integrable temporal covariance functions. Our argument follows the approach developed in (Marinucci, Rossi, Vidotto (2021) Ann. Appl. Probab.) and allow to extend their results for invariant spatio-temporal Gaussian fields on the two-dimensional unit sphere to the case of chi-squared distributed fields on two-point homogeneous spaces in any dimension. We find that both the asymptotic variance and limiting distribution, as $T\to +\infty$, of the average empirical volume turn out to be non-universal, depending on the memory parameters of the field $X$.