Large deviations for Minkowski sums of heavy-tailed generally non-convex random compact sets

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Mikosch, Thomas; Pawlas, Zbynek; Samorodnitsky, Gennady
Abstract
We prove large deviation results for Minkowski sums of iid random compact sets where we assume that the summands have a regularly varying distribution. The result confirms the heavy-tailed large deviation heuristics: ``large'' values of the sum are essentially due to the ``largest'' summand.
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Thomas Mikosch's research is partly supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council (FNU) Grant 09-072331, ``Point process modelling and statistical inference''. Zbyn\v ek Pawlas is partly supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, research project MSM 0021620839 and by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant P201/10/0472. Gennady Samorodnitsky's research is partially supported by a US Army Research Office (ARO) grant W911NF-10-1-0289 and a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant DMS-1005903 at Cornell University.
Date Issued
2010-08-16
Subject
random set; large deviations; regular variation; Minkowski sum
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technical report

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