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August 2011 Necessary and sufficient conditions for realizability of point processes
Tobias Kuna, Joel L. Lebowitz, Eugene R. Speer
Ann. Appl. Probab. 21(4): 1253-1281 (August 2011). DOI: 10.1214/10-AAP703

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a pair of (generalized) functions ρ1(r1) and ρ2(r1, r2), riX, to be the density and pair correlations of some point process in a topological space X, for example, ℝd, ℤd or a subset of these. This is an infinite-dimensional version of the classical “truncated moment” problem. Standard techniques apply in the case in which there can be only a bounded number of points in any compact subset of X. Without this restriction we obtain, for compact X, strengthened conditions which are necessary and sufficient for the existence of a process satisfying a further requirement—the existence of a finite third order moment. We generalize the latter conditions in two distinct ways when X is not compact.

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Tobias Kuna. Joel L. Lebowitz. Eugene R. Speer. "Necessary and sufficient conditions for realizability of point processes." Ann. Appl. Probab. 21 (4) 1253 - 1281, August 2011. https://doi.org/10.1214/10-AAP703

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Published: August 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 8 August 2011

zbMATH: 1235.60052
MathSciNet: MR2857448
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/10-AAP703

Subjects:
Primary: 44A60 , 60G55
Secondary: 82B20

Keywords: Point processes , realizability , truncated moment problem

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.21 • No. 4 • August 2011
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