The functional Breuer-Major theorem

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Abstract: Let X=XnninmathbbZ be zero-mean stationary Gaussian sequence of random variables with covariance function ho satisfying ho(0)=1. Let varphi:mathbbRomathbbR be a function such that E[varphi(X0)2]<infty and assume that varphi has Hermite rank dgeq1. The celebrated Breuer-Major theorem asserts that, if sumrinmathbbZ|ho(r)|d<infty then the finite dimensional distributions of frac1sqrtnsumi=0lfloorncdotfloor−1varphi(Xi) converge to those of sigma,W, where W is a standard Brownian motion and sigma is some (explicit) constant. Surprisingly, and despite the fact this theorem has become over the years a prominent tool in a bunch of different areas, a necessary and sufficient condition implying the weak convergence in the space of c`adl`ag functions endowed with the Skorohod topology is still missing. Our main goal in this paper is to fill this gap. More precisely, by using suitable boundedness properties satisfied by the generator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup, we show that tightness holds under the sufficient (and almost necessary) natural condition that E[|varphi(X0)|p]<infty for some p>2.





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