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Stein's method on Wiener chaos

Probability 2008-05-10 v5

Abstract

We combine Malliavin calculus with Stein's method, in order to derive explicit bounds in the Gaussian and Gamma approximations of random variables in a fixed Wiener chaos of a general Gaussian process. We also prove results concerning random variables admitting a possibly infinite Wiener chaotic decomposition. Our approach generalizes, refines and unifies the central and non-central limit theorems for multiple Wiener-It\^o integrals recently proved (in several papers, from 2005 to 2007) by Nourdin, Nualart, Ortiz-Latorre, Peccati and Tudor. We apply our techniques to prove Berry-Ess\'een bounds in the Breuer-Major CLT for subordinated functionals of fractional Brownian motion. By using the well-known Mehler's formula for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups, we also recover a technical result recently proved by Chatterjee, concerning the Gaussian approximation of functionals of finite-dimensional Gaussian vectors.

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@article{arxiv.0712.2940,
  title  = {Stein's method on Wiener chaos},
  author = {Ivan Nourdin and Giovanni Peccati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2940},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

39 pages; Two sections added; To appear in PTRF

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