We introduce a flexible methodology for modelling regular spatial point patterns using hyperuniform perturbed lattices. We show that, under suitable mixing conditions on the displacement field, lattices perturbed by stationary random fields are hyperuniform in arbitrary dimension. In particular, Gaussian perturbations with absolutely summable covariances yield class-I hyperuniform point processes. We further derive an explicit formula for the K-function of Gaussian models, which enables efficient parameter estimation via the minimum contrast method. The proposed framework provides a computationally tractable alternative to classical Gibbs models for repulsive data. The methodology is illustrated on three-dimensional data describing grain centers in a polycrystalline nickel-titanium alloy.
We introduce a new methodology for modeling regular spatial data using hyperuniform point processes. We show that, under some mixing conditions on the perturbations, perturbed lattices in general dimension are hyperuniform. Due to their inherent repulsive structure, they serve as an effective baseline model for data sets in which points exhibit repulsiveness. Specifically, we derive an explicit formula for the $K$-function of lattices perturbed by a Gaussian random field, which proves particularly useful in conjunction with the minimal contrast method. We apply this approach to a data set representing the grain centers of a polycrystalline metallic material composed of nickel and titanium.
We investigate the hyperuniformity of marked Gibbs point processes with weak dependencies among distant points whilst the interactions of close points are kept arbitrary. Some variants of stability and range assumptions are posed on the Papangelou intensity in order to prove that the resulting point process is not hyperuniform. The scope of our results covers many frequently used models including Gibbs point processes with a superstable, lower-regular, integrable pair potential as well as Widom--Rowlinson model with random radii or Gibbs point processes with interactions based on Voronoi tessellation and nearest neighbour graph.
We ask whether a stationary lattice in dimension $d$ whose points are shifted by identically distributed but possibly dependent perturbations remains hyperuniform. When $d = 1$ or $2$, we show that it is the case when the perturbations have a finite $d$-moment, and that this condition is sharp. When $d \geq 3$, we construct arbitrarily small perturbations such that the resulting point process is not hyperuniform. As a side remark of independent interest, we exhibit hyperuniform processes with arbitrarily slow decay of their number variance.
We introduce cylinder processes in the plane defined as union sets of dilated straight lines (appearing as mutually overlapping infinitely long strips) generated by a stationary independently marked point process on the real line, where the marks describe the width and orientation of the individual cylinders. We study the behavior of the total area of the union of strips contained in a space-filling window ϱK as ϱ → ∞. In the case the unmarked point process is Brillinger mixing, we prove themean-square convergence of the area fraction of the cylinder process in ϱK . Under stronger versions of Brillinger mixing, we obtain the exact variance asymptotics of the area of the cylinder process in ϱK as ϱ → ∞. Due to the long-range dependence of the cylinder process, this variance increases asymptotically proportionally to ϱ 3 .
We observe a realization of a stationary weighted Voronoi tessellation of thed-dimensional Euclidean space within a bounded observation window. Given a geometric characteristic of the typical cell, we use the minus-sampling technique to construct an unbiased estimator of the average value of this geometric characteristic. Under mild conditions on the weights of the cells, we establish variance asymptotics and the asymptotic normality of the unbiased estimator as the observation window tends to the whole space. Moreover, weak consistency is shown for this estimator.
In the paper asymptotic properties of functionals of stationary Gibbs particle processes are derived. Two known techniques from the point process theory in the Euclidean space R^d are extended to the space of compact sets on R^d equipped by the Hausdorff metric. First, conditions for the existence of the stationary Gibbs point process with given conditional intensity have been simplified recently. Secondly, the Malliavin-Stein calculus was applied to the estimation of Wasserstein distance between the Gibbs input and standard Gaussian distribution. We transform these theories to the space of compact sets and use them to derive a Gaussian approximation for functionals of a planar Gibbs segment process.