On point processes on the circle

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürg Hüsler

Point processes on the circle with circumference 1 are considered, which are related to the coverage problem of the circle by n randomly placed arcs of a fixed length. The anticlockwise endpoint of each arc is assumed to be uniformly distributed on the circle. We deal with a general limit result on the convergence of these point processes to a Poisson process on the circle. This result is then applied to several cases of the coverage problem, giving improved limit results in these cases. The proof uses a new convergence result of general point processes.

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 322-331
Author(s):  
Jürg Hüsler

Point processes on the circle with circumference 1 are considered, which are related to the coverage problem of the circle by n randomly placed arcs of a fixed length. The anticlockwise endpoint of each arc is assumed to be uniformly distributed on the circle. We deal with a general limit result on the convergence of these point processes to a Poisson process on the circle. This result is then applied to several cases of the coverage problem, giving improved limit results in these cases. The proof uses a new convergence result of general point processes.


1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Macchi

The structure of the probability space associated with a general point process, when regarded as a counting process, is reviewed using the coincidence formalism. The rest of the paper is devoted to the class of regular point processes for which all coincidence probabilities admit densities. It is shown that their distribution is completely specified by the system of coincidence densities. The specification formalism is stressed for ‘completely’ regular point processes. A construction theorem gives a characterization of the system of coincidence densities of such a process. It permits the study of most models of point processes. New results on the photon process, a particular type of conditioned Poisson process, are derived. New examples are exhibited, including the Gauss-Poisson process and the ‘fermion’ process that is suitable whenever the points are repulsive.


1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 83-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Macchi

The structure of the probability space associated with a general point process, when regarded as a counting process, is reviewed using the coincidence formalism. The rest of the paper is devoted to the class of regular point processes for which all coincidence probabilities admit densities. It is shown that their distribution is completely specified by the system of coincidence densities. The specification formalism is stressed for ‘completely’ regular point processes. A construction theorem gives a characterization of the system of coincidence densities of such a process. It permits the study of most models of point processes. New results on the photon process, a particular type of conditioned Poisson process, are derived. New examples are exhibited, including the Gauss-Poisson process and the ‘fermion’ process that is suitable whenever the points are repulsive.


1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 881-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Dieter Unkelbach

A road traffic model with restricted passing, formulated by Newell (1966), is described by conditional cluster point processes and analytically handled by generating functionals of point processes.The traffic distributions in either space or time are in equilibrium, if the fast cars form a Poisson process with constant intensity combined with Poisson-distributed queues behind the slow cars (Brill (1971)). It is shown that this state of equilibrium is stable, which means that this state will be reached asymptotically for general initial traffic distributions. Furthermore the queues behind the slow cars dissolve asymptotically like independent Poisson processes with diminishing rate, also independent of the process of non-queuing cars. To get these results limit theorems for conditional cluster point processes are formulated.


1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 324-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Weil ◽  
John A. Wieacker

For certain stationary random setsX, densitiesDφ(X) of additive functionalsφare defined and formulas forare derived whenKis a compact convex set in. In particular, for the quermassintegrals and motioninvariantX, these formulas are in analogy with classical integral geometric formulas. The case whereXis the union set of a Poisson processYof convex particles is considered separately. Here, formulas involving the intensity measure ofYare obtained.


1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Weil ◽  
John A. Wieacker

For certain stationary random sets X, densities Dφ (X) of additive functionals φ are defined and formulas for are derived when K is a compact convex set in . In particular, for the quermassintegrals and motioninvariant X, these formulas are in analogy with classical integral geometric formulas. The case where X is the union set of a Poisson process Y of convex particles is considered separately. Here, formulas involving the intensity measure of Y are obtained.


1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 710-719
Author(s):  
Richard F. Serfozo

The Poisson process is regarded as a point process of rare events because of the classical result that the number of successes in a sequence of Bernoulli trials is asymptotically Poisson as the probability of a success tends to 0. It is shown that this rareness property of the Poisson process is characteristic of any infinitely divisible point process or random measure with independent increments. These processes and measures arise as limits of certain rarefactions of compound point processes: purely atomic random measures with uniformly null atom sizes. Examples include thinnings and partitions of point processes.


1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 646-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven P. Ellis

Spatial point processes are considered whose points are subjected to certain classes of affine transformations indexed by some variable, T. Under some hypotheses, for large T integrals with respect to such a point process behave approximately as if the process were Poisson. Under stronger hypotheses, the transformed process converges as a process to a Poisson process. The result gives the asymptotic distribution of certain density estimates.


1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Xi-Ren Cao

One result that is of both theoretical and practical importance regarding point processes is the method of thinning. The basic idea of this method is that under some conditions, there exists an embedded Poisson process in any point process such that all its arrival points form a sub-sequence of the Poisson process. We extend this result by showing that on the embedded Poisson process of a uni- or multi-variable marked point process in which interarrival time distributions may depend on the marks, one can define a Markov chain with a discrete state that characterizes the stage of the interarrival times. This implies that one can construct embedded Markov chains with countable state spaces for the state processes of many practical systems that can be modeled by such point processes.


1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 252-257
Author(s):  
Michael Scheutzow

It is known (Weizsäcker and Winkler (1990)) that for bounded predictable functions H and a Poisson process with jump times exists almost surely, and that in this case both limits are equal. Here we relax the boundedness condition on H. Our tool is a law of large numbers for local L 2-martingales. We show by examples that our condition is close to optimal. Furthermore we indicate a generalization to point processes on more general spaces. The above property is called PASTA (‘Poisson arrivals see time averages') and is heavily used in queueing theory.


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