Stein's method in two limit theorems involving the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution

Abstract

The generalized hyperbolic (GH) distribution converges in law to the generalized inverse Gaussian (GIG) distribution under certain conditions on the parameters. When the edges of an infinite rooted tree are equipped with independent resistances that are inverse Gaussian or reciprocal inverse Gaussian distributions, the total resistance converges almost surely to some random variable which follows the reciprocal inverse Gaussian (RIG) distribution. In this paper we provide explicit upper bounds for the distributional distance between GH (resp. infinite tree) distribution and their limiting GIG (resp. RIG) distribution applying Stein's method.