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Let {X a ;a∈Z d} (d≧2) be a random field satisfying some weak dependence condition. For a finite subset V of Z d, set \(S(V) = \sum\limits_{a \in V} {X_a } \). In this paper, under the conditions related to moment and dependence coefficients, we show that L ∞- and L 1-rates in the central limit theorem for S(V) are of order O(¦V¦−1/2(log¦V¦)d) (strong mixing case): O(¦V¦−1/2) (m-dependent case). Here ¦V¦ denotes the number of elements in V. The content of this paper is a negative answer to the conjecture of Prakasa Rao (Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw. Gebiete 58, 247–256 (1981)).
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Takahata, H. On the rates in the central limit theorem for weakly dependent random fields. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 64, 445–456 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00534950
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