CLT for crossings of random trigonometric polynomials

Abstract

We establish a central limit theorem for the number of roots of the equation $X_N(t) =u$ when $X_N(t)$ is a Gaussian trigonometric polynomial of degree $N$. The case $u=0$ was studied by Granville and Wigman. We show that for some size of the considered interval, the asymptotic behavior is different depending on whether $u$ vanishes or not. Our mains tools are: a) a chaining argument with the stationary Gaussain process with covariance $\sin(t)/t$, b) the use of Wiener chaos decomposition that explains some singularities that appear in the limit when $u \neq 0$.