Convergence of densities of some functionals of Gaussian processes |
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Authors: | Yaozhong Hu Fei Lu David Nualart |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA;2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA |
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Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to establish the uniform convergence of the densities of a sequence of random variables, which are functionals of an underlying Gaussian process, to a normal density. Precise estimates for the uniform distance are derived by using the techniques of Malliavin calculus, combined with Stein?s method for normal approximation. We need to assume some non-degeneracy conditions. First, the study is focused on random variables in a fixed Wiener chaos, and later, the results are extended to the uniform convergence of the derivatives of the densities and to the case of random vectors in some fixed chaos, which are uniformly non-degenerate in the sense of Malliavin calculus. Explicit upper bounds for the uniform norm are obtained for random variables in the second Wiener chaos, and an application to the convergence of densities of the least square estimator for the drift parameter in Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes is discussed. |
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Keywords: | Multiple Wiener&ndash Itô integrals Wiener chaos Malliavin calculus Integration by parts Stein?s method Convergence of densities Ornstein&ndash Uhlenbeck process Least squares estimator Small deviation |
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