Boundary-layer asymptotics for Gaussian-smoothed singular measures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04514v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:28:29 GMT
• Title: Boundary-layer asymptotics for Gaussian-smoothed singular measures
• Abstract summary: We study the small-noise stratums of Euclidean heat regularizations of probability measures supported on manifold with corners.<n>We derive logarithmics and uniform expansions for the score, the log-Hessian, and the scale derivative of the score.<n>These formulas show how lower-dimensional support, boundary faces, corners, and curvature are encoded in the singular differential structure of small-noise Gaussian regularizations.
• Score: 3.903171992644253
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We study the small-noise asymptotics of Euclidean heat regularizations of probability measures supported on manifolds with corners. Near a boundary or corner stratum, the relevant regime is a conical boundary layer in which the observation point approaches the stratum at the same scale as the Gaussian smoothing parameter. After rescaling this layer, the support is replaced to leading order by its inward tangent cone. We prove a two-term expansion for the heat-regularized density in this regime. The leading coefficient is the Gaussian mass of the linearized cone, weighted by the density on the support and by the adapted corner Jacobian; the first correction records the variation of the density, the Jacobian, and the quadratic geometry of the embedding. A localization argument then yields the corresponding expansion for the full heat regularization, with the nonlocal contribution exponentially small. From this density expansion we derive logarithmic asymptotics and uniform expansions for the score, the log-Hessian, and the scale derivative of the score. These formulas show how lower-dimensional support, boundary faces, corners, and curvature are encoded in the singular differential structure of small-noise Gaussian regularizations.

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