Fine Gaussian fluctuations on the Poisson space. I: Contractions, cumulants and geometric random graphs (Q388884)

The authors derive normal approximation results based on the Stein method for finite sums of multiple stochastic integrals with respect to a Poisson random measure. These results are then applied to asymptotic edge-counting problems in random geometric graphs, by representing their edge counts as \(U\)-statistics written as linear combinations of first- and second-order Poisson stochastic integrals. As a result, asymptotic distribution estimates for renormalized edge counts are obtained in different convergence regimes as the intensity of the underlying Poisson random measure tends to infinity. This provides in particular a characterization of those geometric random graphs whose edge-counting statistics exhibit asymptotic Gaussianity.