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Poisson boundary of triangular matrices in a number field

Bruno Schapira (2009)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

The aim of this note is to describe the Poisson boundary of the group of invertible triangular matrices with coefficients in a number field. It generalizes to any dimension and to any number field a result of Brofferio concerning the Poisson boundary of random rational affinities.

Poisson convergence for the largest eigenvalues of heavy tailed random matrices

Antonio Auffinger, Gérard Ben Arous, Sandrine Péché (2009)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

We study the statistics of the largest eigenvalues of real symmetric and sample covariance matrices when the entries are heavy tailed. Extending the result obtained by Soshnikov in (Electron. Commun. Probab.9 (2004) 82–91), we prove that, in the absence of the fourth moment, the asymptotic behavior of the top eigenvalues is determined by the behavior of the largest entries of the matrix.

Poisson matching

Alexander E. Holroyd, Robin Pemantle, Yuval Peres, Oded Schramm (2009)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

Suppose that red and blue points occur as independent homogeneous Poisson processes in ℝd. We investigate translation-invariant schemes for perfectly matching the red points to the blue points. For any such scheme in dimensions d=1, 2, the matching distance X from a typical point to its partner must have infinite d/2th moment, while in dimensions d≥3 there exist schemes where X has finite exponential moments. The Gale–Shapley stable marriage is one natural matching scheme, obtained by iteratively...

Poisson perturbations

Andrew D. Barbour, Aihua Xia (2010)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

Stein's method is used to prove approximations in total variation to the distributions of integer valued random variables by (possibly signed) compound Poisson measures. For sums of independent random variables, the results obtained are very explicit, and improve upon earlier work of Kruopis (1983) and Čekanavičius (1997); coupling methods are used to derive concrete expressions for the error bounds. An example is given to illustrate the potential for application to sums of dependent random variables. ...

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