Expected Lipschitz-Killing curvatures for spin random fields and other non-isotropic fields

This paper derives an explicit, non-asymptotic formula for the expected Lipschitz-Killing curvatures of excursion sets for arbitrary left-invariant Gaussian spin spherical random fields on SO(3)SO(3) with respect to an arbitrary metric, providing a general framework applicable to non-degenerate Gaussian fields on three-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds for analyzing Cosmic Microwave Background polarization.

Francesca Pistolato, Michele Stecconi2026-03-05🔬 physics