Point stationarity in d dimensions and Palm theory

Abstract

The paper extends to d > 1 dimensions the concept of point-stationarity, which formalizes the intuitive idea of a point process for which the behaviour relative to a given point of the process is independent of the point selected as origin. After defining point-stationarity, this concept is characterized in several ways and the characterizations then used to extend to d dimensions a particular approach to Palm theory, producing two dualities between stationary and point-stationary processes with quite different interpretations. The dualities coincide in the ergodic case.