{"paper":{"title":"Winding of planar gaussian processes","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.stat-mech","authors_text":"Baruch Horovitz, Pierre Le Doussal, Yoav Etzioni","submitted_at":"2009-04-03T14:32:13Z","abstract_excerpt":"We consider a smooth, rotationally invariant, centered gaussian process in the plane, with arbitrary correlation matrix $C_{t t'}$. We study the winding angle $\\phi_t$ around its center. We obtain a closed formula for the variance of the winding angle as a function of the matrix $C_{tt'}$. For most stationary processes $C_{tt'}=C(t-t')$ the winding angle exhibits diffusion at large time with diffusion coefficient $D = \\int_0^\\infty ds C'(s)^2/(C(0)^2-C(s)^2)$. Correlations of $\\exp(i n \\phi_t)$ with integer $n$, the distribution of the angular velocity $\\dot \\phi_t$, and the variance of the al"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"0904.0582","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}