The Poisson Multiplication Formula

Abstract

We establish necessary and sufficient conditions implying that the product of $m\ge 2$ Poisson functionals, living in a finite sum of Wiener chaoses, is square-integrable. Our conditions are expressed in terms of iterated add-one cost operators, and are obtained through the use of a novel family of Poincaré inequalities for almost surely finite random variables, generalizing the recent findings by Trauthwein (2024). When specialized to the case of multiple Wiener-Itô integrals, our results yield general multiplication formulae on the Poisson space under minimal conditions, naturally expressed in terms of partitions and diagrams. Our work addresses several questions left open in a seminal work by Surgailis (1984), and completes a line of research initiated in Döbler and Peccati (2018).