On the existence of mosaic and indicator random fields with spherical, circular, and triangular variograms

DOI10.1007/S11004-010-9282-9MaRDI QIDQ616043zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Emery

Publication date 7 January 2011

Published in Mathematical Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-010-9282-9

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean random setexcursion random setgeometric covariogramrandom tessellation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Random fields (60G60) Inference from spatial processes (62M30)

Review text

The geometric covariogram of a set \(A\) is the function \(K(h)\) equal to the Lebesgue measure of the intersection of \(A\) with \(A-h\). Three important covariogram functions are obtained by taking \(A\) to be the unit ball in spaces of dimension 1, 2 or 3 and are called, respectively, triangular, circular and spherical covariograms. These covariograms are isotropic, depend only on \(\|h\|\) and so can be then considered in spaces of arbitrary dimension. The geometric covariogram of a random closed set \(X\) is defined as the expected Lebesgue measure of \(X\cap(X-h)\). The author investigates if the three basic covariograms (triangular, circular and spherical) may be realised as covariograms of several important random sets: the zero cell of a random tessellation (and so related to the variogram of the mosaic random field obtained by assigning i.i.d. values to individual cells), the Boolean random set, and the excursion set of a Gaussian random field. While it is shown that random sets on the line may have these covariograms, this is generally not possible in spaces of dimensions 2 and 3.

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