Abstract

We study the Stein equation associated with the one-dimensional Gamma distribution, and provide novel bounds, allowing one to effectively deal with test functions supported by the whole real line. We apply our estimates to derive new quantitative results involving random variables that are non-linear functionals of random fields, namely: (i) a non-central quantitative de Jong theorem for sequences of degenerate $U$-statistics satisfying minimal uniform integrability conditions, significantly extending previous findings by de Jong (J. Multivariate Anal. 34 (1990) 275–289), Nourdin, Peccati and Reinert (Ann. Probab. 38 (2010) 1947–1985) and Dobler and Peccati (Electron. J. Probab. 22 (2017) no. 2), (ii) a new Gamma approximation bound on the Poisson space, refining previous estimates by Peccati and Thale (ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (2013) 525–560) and (iii) new Gamma bounds on a Gaussian space, strengthening estimates by Nourdin and Peccati (Probab. Theory Related Fields 145 (2009) 75–118). As a by-product of our analysis, we also deduce a new inequality for Gamma approximations via exchangeable pairs, that is of independent interest.

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