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Poisson and extreme value limit theorems for Markov random fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Simeon M. Berman
Simeon M. Berman*
Affiliation:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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∗Postal address: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, USA.
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Abstract

Let Xt, be a Markov random field assuming values in RM. Let In be a rectangular box in Zm with its center at 0 and corner points with coordinates ±n. Let (An) be a sequence of measurable subsets of RM such that neighborhood of t) → 0, for n → ∞; and let fn(x) be the indicator of An. Under appropriate conditions on the nearest-neighbor distributions of (Xt), the conditional distribution of given the values of Xs, for s on the boundary of In, converges to the Poisson distribution. An immediate application is an extreme value limit theorem for a real-valued Markov random field.

Keywords

STATIONARITYMIXINGEXTREME VALUESPOISSON LIMIT
Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1987 , pp. 106 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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Footnotes

This paper represents results obtained at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Army Research Office, Grant number DAAG-29-85-K-0146, and the National Science Foundation, Grant DMS 85 01512.

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