An extension of Wick's theorem

Vignat, C and Bhatnagar, S (2008) An extension of Wick's theorem. In: Statistics & Probability Letters, 78 (15). pp. 2404-2407.

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Abstract

We propose an extension of a result by Repetowicz et al. [Repetowicz, P., Richmond, P., 2004. The Wick theorem for non-Gaussian distributions and its application for noise filtering of correlated q-exponentially distributed random variables (in press). arxiv:math-ph/0411020 v1] about Wick’s theorem and its applications. We first show that Wick’s theorem can be extended to the uniform distribution on the sphere and then to the whole class of elliptical distributions. Then, as a special case, we detail this result for distributions that are scale mixtures of Gaussians. Finally, we show that these results allow to recover easily a theorem by Folland [Folland, G.B., 2001. How to integrate a polynomial over a sphere. The American Mathematical Monthly 108 (5), 446–448] about the integration of polynomials over the sphere.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Statistics & Probability Letters
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2009 10:28
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:57
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/17519

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