## The Annals of Applied Probability

### Central limit theorems for Poisson hyperplane tessellations

#### Abstract

We derive a central limit theorem for the number of vertices of convex polytopes induced by stationary Poisson hyperplane processes in ℝd. This result generalizes an earlier one proved by Paroux [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 30 (1998) 640–656] for intersection points of motion-invariant Poisson line processes in ℝ2. Our proof is based on Hoeffding’s decomposition of U-statistics which seems to be more efficient and adequate to tackle the higher-dimensional case than the “method of moments” used in [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 30 (1998) 640–656] to treat the case d=2. Moreover, we extend our central limit theorem in several directions. First we consider k-flat processes induced by Poisson hyperplane processes in ℝd for 0≤kd−1. Second we derive (asymptotic) confidence intervals for the intensities of these k-flat processes and, third, we prove multivariate central limit theorems for the d-dimensional joint vectors of numbers of k-flats and their k-volumes, respectively, in an increasing spherical region.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Appl. Probab., Volume 16, Number 2 (2006), 919-950.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 29 June 2006

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1151592255

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/105051606000000033

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2244437

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1132.60023

#### Citation

Heinrich, Lothar; Schmidt, Hendrik; Schmidt, Volker. Central limit theorems for Poisson hyperplane tessellations. Ann. Appl. Probab. 16 (2006), no. 2, 919--950. doi:10.1214/105051606000000033. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1151592255

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