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Stationary partitions and Palm probabilities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
Abstract
A stationary partition based on a stationary point process N in ℝd is an ℝd-valued random field π={π(x): x∈ℝd} such that both π(y)∈N for each y∈ℝd and the random partition {{y∈ℝd: π(y)=x}: x∈N} is stationary jointly with N. Stationary partitions may be considered as general versions of the stationary random tessellations studied in stochastic geometry. As in the special case of the Voronoi tessellation, a stationary partition can be used to relate the underlying stationary probability measure to the associated Palm probability measure of N. In doing so, we will develop some basic theory for stationary partitions and extend properties of stationary tessellations to our more general case. One basic idea is that the stationary measure is (up to a shift) a weighted version of the Palm measure, where the weight is the volume of the typical cell. We will make systematic use of a known modified probability measure. Finally, we use our approach to extend some recent results on the shift coupling of the stationary distribution and the Palm distribution.
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