Betti numbers of random real hypersurfaces and determinants of random symmetric matrices

By Damien Gayet, Jean-Yves Welschinger. 2012

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We asymptotically estimate from above the expected Betti numbers of random real hypersurfaces in smooth real projective manifolds. Our upper bounds grow as the square root of the degree of the hypersurfaces as the latter grows to infinity, with a coefficient involving the K\"ahlerian volume of the real locus of the manifold as well as the expected determinant of random real symmetric matrices of given index. In particular, for large dimensions, these coefficients get exponentially small away from mid-dimensional Betti numbers. In order to get these results, we first establish the equidistribution of the critical points of a given Morse function restricted to the ran- dom real hypersurfaces.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology

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