A lower bound for the Bogomolny-Schmit constant for random monochromatic plane waves

Abstract

This note deals with nodal domains of random monochromatic plane waves. It was shown by Nazarov and Sodin that the expected number of such nodal domains included in a disk of radius $R$ is proportional to $\pi R^2$ in the large $R$ limit. However, very little is known on the value of the proportionality constant from a mathematical point of view. The aim of this note is to obtain a lower bound on the value of this constant my elementary means.

6 pages, correction of a computation error and of the proof of lemma 2.2, the main result is stronger than in the original version