The compound Poisson distribution and return times in dynamical systems (Q2391169)

The aim of the present paper is to study the behavior of return times for mixing dynamical systems at periodic points and to find that their limiting distribution is not a classical Poisson distribution but a compound Poisson distribution. To this direction the authors manage to provide special conditions under which one obtains a compound Poisson distribution with error terms (see Proposition 1) and to prove a general theorem that can be used to establish compound Poisson distributions in many other settings.