Lectures on the Poisson ProcessThe Poisson process, a core object in modern probability, enjoys a richer theory than is sometimes appreciated. This volume develops the theory in the setting of a general abstract measure space, establishing basic results and properties as well as certain advanced topics in the stochastic analysis of the Poisson process. Also discussed are applications and related topics in stochastic geometry, including stationary point processes, the Boolean model, the Gilbert graph, stable allocations, and hyperplane processes. Comprehensive, rigorous, and self-contained, this text is ideal for graduate courses or for self-study, with a substantial number of exercises for each chapter. Mathematical prerequisites, mainly a sound knowledge of measure-theoretic probability, are kept in the background, but are reviewed comprehensively in the appendix. The authors are well-known researchers in probability theory; especially stochastic geometry. Their approach is informed both by their research and by their extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. |
Contents
Point Processes | 9 |
The Mecke Equation and Factorial Measures | 26 |
Mappings Markings and Thinnings | 38 |
Characterisations of the Poisson Process | 46 |
Poisson Processes on the Real Line | 58 |
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The Palm Distribution | 82 |
Extra Heads and Balanced Allocations | 92 |
Normal Approximation in the Boolean Model | 227 |
Appendix A Some Measure Theory | 239 |
Metric Spaces | 250 |
Hausdorff Measures and Additive Functionals | 252 |
Measures on the Real HalfLine | 257 |
Absolutely Continuous Functions | 259 |
Appendix B Some Probability Theory | 261 |
Mean Ergodic Theorem | 264 |
Stable Allocations | 103 |
Random Measures and Cox Processes | 127 |
Compound Poisson Processes | 153 |
The Boolean Model and the Gilbert Graph | 166 |
The Boolean Model with General Grains | 179 |
Perturbation Analysis | 197 |
Covariance Identities | 211 |
The Central Limit Theorem and Steins Equation | 266 |
Conditional Expectations | 268 |
Gaussian Random Fields | 269 |
Historical Notes | 272 |
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