Moments and central limit theorems for some multivariate Poisson functionals

Guenter Last, Mathew D. Penrose, Matthias Schulte, Christoph Thaele

Published 2012-05-14, updated 2014-04-03Version 3

This paper deals with Poisson processes on an arbitrary measurable space. Using a direct approach, we derive formulae for moments and cumulants of a vector of multiple Wiener-It\^o integrals with respect to the compensated Poisson process. Second, a multivariate central limit theorem is shown for a vector whose components admit a finite chaos expansion of the type of a Poisson U-statistic. The approach is based on recent results of Peccati et al.\ combining Malliavin calculus and Stein's method, and also yields Berry-Esseen type bounds. As applications, moment formulae and central limit theorems for general geometric functionals of intersection processes associated with a stationary Poisson process of $k$-dimensional flats in $\R^d$ are discussed.