Department of Mathematics

Seminar / Workshop

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Limit theorems for supCAR Random Fields

9 April 2026, start time 15:00 - 16:00
PovoZero, Via Sommarive 14, Povo (Trento)
Seminar Room "1"
Organizer: Department of Mathematics
Target audience: Students, UniTrento PhD students, Research Fellows, Researchers, Postdoctoral Researcher, UniTrento faculty
Referent: Michele Coghi
Contacts: 
Staff of the Department of Mathematics
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Speaker: Nicolai Leonenko (Cardiff University)

The paper introduces a new class of random fields, supCAR fields, which are constructed as superpositions of continuous autoregressive random fields. These supCAR fields possess infinitely divisible marginal distributions. Their second-order properties are characterised by a novel family of covariance functions which can exhibit short- and long-range spatial dependencies. First, the existence of such fields is examined. Then, functional limit theorems for supCAR fields are derived under general assumptions. Four limiting scenarios that depend on the marginals of the underlying autoregressive fields and the specifications of the superposition are identified. Examples of specific supCAR fields, for which the assumptions and results are provided in simple, explicit forms, are presented. The obtained limit theorems can be employed for the statistical inference of supCAR fields. 
These are joint results with Illia Donhauzer (Kyushu University, Japan) and Andriy Olenko (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

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