Hard-core thinnings of germ-grain models with power-law grain sizes

DOI10.1239/AAP/1377868531zbMATH Open1282.60013arXiv1204.1208OpenAlexW2033302727WikidataQ110213621 ScholiaQ110213621MaRDI QIDQ2856027FDOQ2856027

Authors: Mikko Kuronen, Lasse Leskelä 

Publication date: 23 October 2013

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Random sets with long-range dependence can be generated using a Boolean model with power-law grain sizes. We study thinnings of such Boolean models which have the hard-core property that no grains overlap in the resulting germ-grain model. A fundamental question is whether long-range dependence is preserved under such thinnings. To answer this question we study four natural thinnings of a Poisson germ-grain model where the grains are spheres with a regularly varying size distribution. We show that a thinning which favors large grains preserves the slow correlation decay of the original model, whereas a thinning which favors small grains does not. Our most interesting finding concerns the case where only disjoint grains are retained, which corresponds to the well-known Mat'ern type I thinning. In the resulting germ-grain model, typical grains have exponentially small sizes, but rather surprisingly, the long-range dependence property is still present. As a byproduct, we obtain new mechanisms for generating homogeneous and isotropic random point configurations having a power-law correlation decay.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1208

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zbMATH Keywords

Boolean modelhard-core modelmarked Poisson processgerm-grain modelhard-sphere model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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Uses Software

• plfit

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