Total variation distance between stochastic polynomials and invariance principles

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Abstract: The goal of this paper is to estimate the total variation distance between two general stochastic polynomials. As a consequence one obtains an invariance principle for such polynomials. This generalizes known results concerning the total variation distance between two multiple stochastic integrals on one hand, and invariance principles in Kolmogorov distance for multi-linear stochastic polynomials on the other hand. As an application we first discuss the asymptotic behavior of U-statistics associated to polynomial kernels. Moreover we also give an example of CLT associated to quadratic forms.


Suppose that a sequence \(X=(X_n)_{n \in \mathbb N}\) consists of independent random variables, which have finite moments of any order. This paper considers stochastic polynomials \[Q_{N,k_ *}(c,X) = \sum\limits_{m = 0}^N\Phi _m(c,X),\] where \[\Phi_m(c,X) := \sum\limits_{k_1,\dots,k_m=1}^{k_ *}\sum\limits_{n_1<\dots <n_m=1}^\infty c((n_1,k_1),\dots,(n_m,k_m)) \times \mathop \Pi \limits_{j = 1}^m (X_{n_j}^{k_j}-\mathrm{E}(X_{n_j}^{k_j})).\] The coefficients \(c\) are symmetric and null on the diagonals and only a finite number of them are nonnull. Here \(X_n\in\mathbb{R}\), but the paper deals with\(X_n\in\mathbb{R}^{d_ *}\). The authors indicate that these multilinear stochastic polynomials are a natural generalization of elements of the classical Wiener chaos. In addition, they are of interest in applications to \(U\)-statistics theory. The goal of the paper is to estimate the total variation distance between the laws of two such polynomials, and to establish an invariance principle.



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