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Vanessa Trapp

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arXiv2024

The radial spanning tree in hyperbolic space

Consider a stationary Poisson process $\eta$ in a $d$-dimensional hyperbolic space of constant curvature $-\varkappa$ and let the points of $\eta$ together with a fixed origin $o$ be the vertices of a graph. Connect each point $x\in\eta$ with its radial nearest neighbour, which is the hyperbolically nearest vertex to $x$ that is closer to $o$ than $x$. This construction gives rise to the hyperbolic radial spanning tree, whose geometric properties are in the focus of this paper. In particular, the degree of the origin is studied. For increasing balls around $o$ as observation windows, expectation and variance asymptotics as well as a quantitative central limit theorem for a class of edge-length functionals are derived. The results are contrasted with those for the Euclidean radial spanning tree.

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arXiv2024

Geometric functionals of polyconvex excursion sets of Poisson shot noise processes

Excursion sets of Poisson shot noise processes are a prominent class of random sets. We consider a specific class of Poisson shot noise processes whose excursion sets within compact convex observation windows are almost surely polyconvex. This class contains, for example, the Boolean model. In this paper, we analyse the behaviour of geometric functionals such as the intrinsic volumes of these excursion sets for growing observation windows. In particular, we study the asymptotics of the expectation and the variance, derive a lower variance bound and show a central limit theorem.

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arXiv2022

Lower bounds for variances of Poisson functionals

Lower bounds for variances are often needed to derive central limit theorems. In this paper, we establish a lower bound for the variance of Poisson functionals that uses the difference operator of Malliavin calculus. Poisson functionals, i.e. random variables that depend on a Poisson process, are frequently studied in stochastic geometry. We apply our lower variance bound to statistics of spatial random graphs, the $L^p$ surface area of random polytopes and the volume of excursion sets of Poisson shot noise processes. Thereby we do not only bound variances from below but also show positive definiteness of asymptotic covariance matrices and provide associated results on the multivariate normal approximation.

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