Central limit theorems for Poisson hyperplane tessellations

DOI10.1214/105051606000000033MaRDI QIDQ997957zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lothar Heinrich, Hendrik Schmidt, Volker Schmidt

Publication date 8 August 2007

Published in The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607120

$k$-flat intersection process $U$-statistic central limit theorem Hoeffding's decomposition point process Poisson hyperplane process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12)

Abstract: We derive a central limit theorem for the number of vertices of convex polytopes induced by stationary Poisson hyperplane processes in

m a t h b b R^{d}

. This result generalizes an earlier one proved by Paroux [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 30 (1998) 640--656] for intersection points of motion-invariant Poisson line processes in

m a t h b b R^{2}

. Our proof is based on Hoeffding's decomposition of

U

-statistics which seems to be more efficient and adequate to tackle the higher-dimensional case than the ``method of moments used in [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 30 (1998) 640--656] to treat the case $d = 2$ . Moreover, we extend our central limit theorem in several directions. First we consider $k$ -flat processes induced by Poisson hyperplane processes in $m a t h b b R^{d}$ for $0 l e k l e d - 1$ . Second we derive (asymptotic) confidence intervals for the intensities of these $k$ -flat processes and, third, we prove multivariate central limit theorems for the $d$ -dimensional joint vectors of numbers of $k$ -flats and their $k$ -volumes, respectively, in an increasing spherical region.

Review text

The paper establishes a central limit theorem for the number of vertices of convex polytopes induced by stationary Poisson hyperplane processes in $\mathbb R^d.$ The result generalizes an earlier one in \textit{K. Paroux} [Adv. Appl. Probab. 30, No. 3, 640--656 (1998; Zbl 0914.60013)] for intersection points of motion-invariant Poisson line processes in $\mathbb R^2.$ The proof utilises $U$-statistic theory as the number of vertices can be expressed in terms of a $U$-statistic based on a Poisson distributed number of observations. This idea is extended in several directions to obtain central limit theorems for the number of $k$-flats and the volume induced by intersections of $d$ hyperplanes of stationary Poisson hyperplane processes in $\mathbb R^d$. Further (asymptotic) confidence intervals are derived for the intensities of the $k$-flat processes.

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