Functional central limit theorems for local statistics of spatial birth–death processes in the thermodynamic regime

Abstract

We present normal approximation results at the process level for local functionals defined on dynamic Poisson processes in Rd. The dynamics we study here are those of a Markov birth–death process. We prove functional limit theorems in the so-called thermodynamic regime. Our results are applicable to several functionals of interest in the stochastic geometry literature, including subgraph and component counts in the random geometric graphs.