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Does a universal fourth-moment theorem hold for Poisson approximation on general discrete chaoses beyond the Poisson and Rademacher settings?

Related: Nualart-Peccati fourth-moment theorem, Peccati-Taqqu product formula for Poisson chaos, Hypercontractivity on discrete probability spaces

The classical fourth-moment phenomenon, originally discovered by Nualart and Peccati for Gaussian limits, says that on Gaussian Wiener chaos, convergence in distribution to a Gaussian is equivalent to just the second and fourth moments converging. A parallel story has now been established for Poisson limits on Poisson and Rademacher chaoses, as in the paper above. The open problem is whether such a four-moment criterion characterizes Poisson convergence on arbitrary discrete chaoses, for instance those built from general independent integer-valued or mixed-type random variables, without requiring the specific combinatorial structure of Poisson or Rademacher inputs.

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