Local central limit theorems in stochastic geometry
Abstract
We give a general local central limit theorem for the sum of two independent random variables, one of which satisfies a central limit theorem while the other satisfies a local central limit theorem with the same order variance. We apply this result to various quantities arising in stochastic geometry, including: size of the largest component for percolation on a box; number of components, number of edges, or number of isolated points, for random geometric graphs; covered volume for germ-grain coverage models; number of accepted points for finite-input random sequential adsorption; sum of nearest-neighbour distances for a random sample from a continuous multidimensional distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.3523,
title = {Local central limit theorems in stochastic geometry},
author = {Mathew D. Penrose and Yuval Peres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3523},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
V1: 31 pages. V2: 45 pages, with new results added in Section 5 and extra explanation added elsewhere