Malliavin differentiability for the excursion measure of a Gaussian field

Abstract: In this work, we investigate the Malliavin differentiability of the excursion volume of a Gaussian field. In particular, we prove that if the moments of the covariance kernel go to 0 polinomially, then we can determine exactly for which p the excursion measure has pth square integrable Malliavin derivative. While our approach can not be implemented for Gaussian fields indexed by discrete sets (where the moments do not vanish), when the Gaussian field is indexed by Rd and stationary, or indexed by Sd and isotropic, the condition on the polynomial decay of the mentioned moments can be inferred starting from simple and general conditions on the covariance function of the field.