## Electronic Journal of Probability

### Functional central limit theorem for subgraph counting processes

#### Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate the limiting behavior of a subgraph counting process built over random points from an inhomogeneous Poisson point process on $\mathbb R^d$. The subgraph counting process we consider counts the number of subgraphs having a specific shape that exist outside an expanding ball as the sample size increases. As underlying laws, we consider distributions with either a regularly varying tail or an exponentially decaying tail. In both cases, the nature of the resulting functional central limit theorem differs according to the speed at which the ball expands. More specifically, the normalizations in the central limit theorems and the properties of the limiting Gaussian processes are all determined by whether or not an expanding ball covers a region - called a weak core - in which the random points are highly densely scattered and form a giant geometric graph.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 22 (2017), paper no. 17, 38 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 26 January 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 15 February 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1487127645

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/17-EJP30

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3622887

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1357.60056

#### Citation

Owada, Takashi. Functional central limit theorem for subgraph counting processes. Electron. J. Probab. 22 (2017), paper no. 17, 38 pp. doi:10.1214/17-EJP30. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1487127645

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