Asymptotic analysis in multivariate average case approximation with Gaussian kernels

Abstract

We consider tensor product random fields $Y_d$, $d\in\mathbb{N}$, whose covariance funtions are Gaussian kernels. The average case approximation complexity $n^{Y_d}(\varepsilon)$ is defined as the minimal number of evaluations of arbitrary linear functionals needed to approximate $Y_d$, with relative $2$-average error not exceeding a given threshold $\varepsilon\in(0,1)$. We investigate the growth of $n^{Y_d}(\varepsilon)$ for arbitrary fixed $\varepsilon\in(0,1)$ and $d\to\infty$. Namely, we find criteria of boundedness for $n^{Y_d}(\varepsilon)$ on $d$ and of tending $n^{Y_d}(\varepsilon)\to\infty$, $d\to\infty$, for any fixed $\varepsilon\in(0,1)$. In the latter case we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the following logarithmic asymptotics \begin{eqnarray*} \ln n^{Y_d}(\varepsilon)= a_d+q(\varepsilon)b_d+o(b_d),\quad d\to\infty, \end{eqnarray*} with any $\varepsilon\in(0,1)$. Here $q\colon (0,1)\to\mathbb{R}$ is a non-decreasing function, $(a_d)_{d\in\mathbb{N}}$ is a sequence and $(b_d)_{d\in\mathbb{N}}$ is a positive sequence such that $b_d\to\infty$, $d\to\infty$. We show that only special quantiles of self-decomposable distribution functions appear as functions $q$ in a given asymptotics. These general results apply to $n^{Y_d}(\varepsilon)$ under particular assumptions on the length scale parameters.