Decorrelation of a class of Gibbs particle processes and asymptotic properties of U-statistics

We study a stationary Gibbs particle process with deterministically bounded particles on Euclidean space defined in terms of an activity parameter and non-negative interaction potentials of finite range. Using disagreement percolation we prove exponential decay of the correlation functions, provided a dominating Boolean model is subcritical. We also prove this property for the weighted moments of a U-statistic of the process. Under the assumption of a suitable lower bound on the variance, this implies a central limit theorem for such U-statistics of the Gibbs particle process. A byproduct of our approach is a new uniqueness result for Gibbs particle processes.

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techReport Decorrelation of a class of Gibbs particle processes and asymptotic properties of U-statistics V. Beneš (Viktor), C. Hofer-Temmel (Christoph), G. Last (Günter) and J. Večeřa (Jakub)