Central limit theorems for U-statistics of poisson point processes

Annals of Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3879-3909

  Reitzner, Matthias ^a   Schulte, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Malliavin calculus; Poisson point process; Stein'smethod; U statistic; Wiener It chaos expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882373868     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOP817     Document Type: Article

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