English

Convergence of long-memory discrete $k$-th order Volterra processes

Probability 2015-05-15 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We obtain limit theorems for a class of nonlinear discrete-time processes X(n)X(n) called the kk-th order Volterra processes of order kk. These are moving average kk-th order polynomial forms: X(n)=0<i1,,ik<a(i1,,ik)ϵni1ϵnik, X(n)=\sum_{0<i_1,\ldots,i_k<\infty}a(i_1,\ldots,i_k)\epsilon_{n-i_1}\ldots\epsilon_{n-i_k}, where {ϵi}\{\epsilon_i\} is i.i.d.\ with Eϵi=0\mathbb{E} \epsilon_i=0, Eϵi2=1\mathbb{E} \epsilon_i^2=1, where a()a(\cdot) is a nonrandom coefficient, and where the diagonals are included in the summation. We specify conditions for X(n)X(n) to be well-defined in L2(Ω)L^2(\Omega), and focus on central and non-central limit theorems. We show that normalized partial sums of centered X(n)X(n) obey the central limit theorem if a()a(\cdot) decays fast enough so that X(n)X(n) has short memory. We prove a non-central limit theorem if, on the other hand, a()a(\cdot) is asymptotically some slowly decaying homogeneous function so that X(n)X(n) has long memory. In the non-central case the limit is a linear combination of Hermite-type processes of different orders. This linear combination can be expressed as a centered multiple Wiener-Stratonovich integral.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1403.1903,
  title  = {Convergence of long-memory discrete $k$-th order Volterra processes},
  author = {Shuyang Bai and Murad S. Taqqu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1903},
  year   = {2015}
}