Operator geometric stable laws are the weak limits of operator normed and centered geometric random sums of independent, identically distributed random vectors. They generalize operator stable laws and geometric stable laws. In this work we characterize operator geometric stable distributions,...

We consider the asymptotics of certain symmetric k-tensors, the vector analogue of sample moments for i.i.d. random variables. The limiting distribution is operator stable as an element of the vector space of real symmetric k-tensors.

If a set of independent, identically distributed random vectors has heavy tails, so that the covariance matrix does not exist, there is no reason to expect that the sample covariance matrix conveys useful information. On the contrary, this paper shows that the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the...