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A more comprehensive complementary theorem for the analysis of Poisson point processes

Part of: Stochastic processes Geometric probability and stochastic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Richard Cowan
Richard Cowan*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
*
∗ Postal address: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email address: rcowan@mail.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

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In this paper we discuss the complementary theorem applied to the typical n-tuple of a Poisson point process. The theorem was first presented by Miles in 1970 and discussed by Santaló in 1976 and, within a Palm measure framework, by Møller and Zuyev in 1996. The theorems put forward by these authors are not correct for all the examples that they present, suggesting that further consideration of their work is needed if one wishes to bring all those examples within the ambit of the complementary theorem. We give alternative analyses of the errant examples and, with a modification of the technicalities in the work of the above authors, move toward a more comprehensive complementary theorem. Some open issues still remain.

Keywords

Random geometryPoisson point processPoisson flat processcomplementary theoremgamma distribution

MSC classification

Primary: 60D05: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry 60G55: Point processes

Information

Type
Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 581 - 601
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2006 

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