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Density convergence on Markov diffusion chaos via Stein's method

Probability 2025-09-23 v1

Abstract

We study the difference between the probability density of a random variable FF on Markov diffusion chaos and the probability density of a general target distribution ZZ. In the special case where FF is a chaotic random variables and ZZ is a Pearson target, we extend our study to the kk-th derivatives of the densities for all kNk\in \mathbb{N}. In particular, we obtain four moment theorems for the convergence of the kk-th derivatives of the densities of FF to the corresponding kk-th derivatives of the density of a Pearson target. Our work therefore significantly extends earlier works [HLN14,BDH24] which studies density convergence of random variables on Wiener chaos to respectively the normal and Gamma targets. We provide two applications of our results. The first application is about weighted sum of i.i.d. Gamma distribution where we show convergence in laws of this weighted sum to another Gamma distribution automatically implies convergence in densities. In the second application, we show that for a large class of Pearson diffusions, the density of its solution with any initial condition exponentially converge to its limiting density. Moreover, this exponential convergence holds for the kk-th derivatives of the densities for all kNk\in \mathbb{N}.

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@article{arxiv.2509.18045,
  title  = {Density convergence on Markov diffusion chaos via Stein's method},
  author = {Thanh Dang and Yaozhong Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18045},
  year   = {2025}
}
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