Point processes on the circle with circumference 1 are considered, which are related to the coverage problem of the circle by n randomly placed arcs of a fixed length. The anticlockwise endpoint of each arc is assumed to be uniformly distributed on the circle. We deal with a general limit result on the convergence of these point processes to a Poisson process on the circle. This result is then applied to several cases of the coverage problem, giving improved limit results in these cases. The proof uses a new convergence result of general point processes.
