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Weak laws of large numbers in geometric probability

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Abstract

Using a coupling argument, we establish a general weak law of large numbers for functionals of binomial point processes in d-dimensional space, with a limit that depends explicitly on the (possibly nonuniform) density of the point process. The general result is applied to the minimal spanning tree, the k-nearest neighbors graph, the Voronoi graph and the sphere of influence graph. Functionals of interest include total edge length with arbitrary weighting, number of vertices of specified degree and number of components. We also obtain weak laws of large numbers functionals of marked point processes, including statistics of Boolean models.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)277--303
Number of pages27
JournalAnnals of Applied Probability
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003

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