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Central limit theorems and asymptotic independence for local U-statistics on diverging halfspaces
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Central limit theorems and asymptotic independence for local U-statistics on diverging halfspaces

Andrew M Thomas
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Cornell University
07/22/2022
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2207.11142
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Abstract

We consider the stochastic behavior of a class of local U-statistics of Poisson processes−which include subgraph and simplex counts as special cases, and amounts to quantifying clustering behavior−for point clouds lying in diverging halfspaces. We provide limit theorems for distributions with light and heavy tails. In particular, we prove finite-dimensional central limit theorems. In the light tail case we investigate tails that decay at least as slow as exponential and at least as fast as Gaussian. These results also furnish as a corollary that U-statistics for halfspaces diverging at different angles are asymptotically independent, and that there is no asymptotic independence for heavy-tailed densities. Using state-of-the-art bounds derived from recent breakthroughs combining Stein's method and Malliavin calculus, we quantify the rate of this convergence in terms of Kolmogorov distance. We also investigate the behavior of local U-statistics of a Poisson Process conditioned to lie in diverging halfspace and show how the rate of convergence in the Kolmogorov distance is faster the lighter the tail of the density is.
Mathematics - Probability

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