Limit laws for longest edges in empty region graphs

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Auteurs principaux: Sambale, Holger, Schulte, Matthias, Thaele, Christoph
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author Sambale, Holger
Schulte, Matthias
Thaele, Christoph
author_facet Sambale, Holger
Schulte, Matthias
Thaele, Christoph
contents Empty region graphs are graphs whose vertices are points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and where two vertices are connected by an edge whenever some associated region does not contain any other vertices. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of long edges in empty region graphs generated by a stationary Poisson process in $\mathbb{R}^d$. {Letting} the intensity of the underlying Poisson process tend to infinity, we consider the associated point process of edge midpoints, suitably transformed edge lengths, and directions of the edges. We prove that it converges in distribution to a Poisson process on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{L}^d$, where $\mathbb{L}^d$ is the space of lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ through the origin, and that the suitably transformed length of the longest edge with midpoint in an observation window converges in distribution to a Gumbel distributed random variable. Our approach yields explicit error bounds in Kantorovich--Rubinstein distance for the point process convergence {when restricting to an observation window} and in Kolmogorov distance for the maximal edge length. The results apply uniformly to a broad class of empty region graphs, including the Gabriel graph, the relative neighbourhood graph, the beta-skeleton graph, the Mastercard graph, and the Pacman graph.
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spellingShingle Limit laws for longest edges in empty region graphs
Sambale, Holger
Schulte, Matthias
Thaele, Christoph
Probability
Combinatorics
05C80, 60D05, 60F05, 60G55, 60G70
Empty region graphs are graphs whose vertices are points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and where two vertices are connected by an edge whenever some associated region does not contain any other vertices. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of long edges in empty region graphs generated by a stationary Poisson process in $\mathbb{R}^d$. {Letting} the intensity of the underlying Poisson process tend to infinity, we consider the associated point process of edge midpoints, suitably transformed edge lengths, and directions of the edges. We prove that it converges in distribution to a Poisson process on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{L}^d$, where $\mathbb{L}^d$ is the space of lines in $\mathbb{R}^d$ through the origin, and that the suitably transformed length of the longest edge with midpoint in an observation window converges in distribution to a Gumbel distributed random variable. Our approach yields explicit error bounds in Kantorovich--Rubinstein distance for the point process convergence {when restricting to an observation window} and in Kolmogorov distance for the maximal edge length. The results apply uniformly to a broad class of empty region graphs, including the Gabriel graph, the relative neighbourhood graph, the beta-skeleton graph, the Mastercard graph, and the Pacman graph.
title Limit laws for longest edges in empty region graphs
topic Probability
Combinatorics
05C80, 60D05, 60F05, 60G55, 60G70
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09248